--- title: Jeremiah 8:17 (JPS 1917) — For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will… · tree and pragmatics description: For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Who acts: I, serpents, LORD. Jeremiah 8:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.257/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/8/) / [8:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.17/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 8:17 · JPS 1917 For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. **Who acts:** I, serpents, LORD · **What happens:** send, not charm, bite, say · **To what, where:** serpents, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 8:17 · 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, serpents, LORD), 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:257 # text = For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 behold behold INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 basilisks basilisk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 charmed charm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | future | I | serpents and basilisks | | | | among you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **charm** | future · passive | | serpents and basilisks | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **bite** | shall | serpents *= serpent* | you | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} כִּי֩ הִנְנִ֨י מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ בָּכֶ֗ם נְחָשִׁים֙ צִפְעֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־לָהֶ֖ם לָ֑חַשׁ וְנִשְּׁכ֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:257` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 8:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.256/) - next →: [Jeremiah 8:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.258/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 8:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.17/)