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title: Jeremiah 8:10 (JPS 1917) — Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them; for from the least even unto the greatest every one is greedy for gain, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. Who acts: I, one. Jeremiah 8:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tr
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# Jeremiah 8:10 · JPS 1917

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Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them; for from the least even unto the greatest every one is greedy for gain, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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**Who acts:** I, one · **What happens:** give, possess, be, deal · **To what, where:** wives, men, least, prophet

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This is Jeremiah 8:10 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JER:249
# text = Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them; for from the least even unto the greatest every one is greedy for gain, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	obl	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nmod	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	dealeth	deal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
45	falsely	falsely	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | I | men's wives and men's fields to men |  |  |  | unto others; therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | shall |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | every one |  |  | the least unto the greatest |  | for gain; greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** | present | every one |  |  | the prophet unto the priest |  | falsely *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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לָכֵן֩ אֶתֵּ֨ן אֶת־נְשֵׁיהֶ֜ם לַאֲחֵרִ֗ים שְׂדֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ לְי֣וֹרְשִׁ֔ים כִּ֤י מִקָּטֹן֙ וְעַד־גָּד֔וֹל כֻּלֹּ֖ה בֹּצֵ֣עַ בָּ֑צַע מִנָּבִיא֙ וְעַד־כֹּהֵ֔ן כֻּלֹּ֖ה עֹ֥שֶׂה שָּֽׁקֶר׃

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:249` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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