--- title: Jeremiah 8:19 (JPS 1917) — Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their gra… · tree and pragmatics description: Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' — Who acts: kings. Jeremiah 8:19 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.260/) [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/) / [8:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.19/) / JPS 2 # Jeremiah 8:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' — **Who acts:** kings · **What happens:** not be, provoke, image · **To what, where:** King, Me This is Jeremiah 8:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (kings), 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:260 # text = Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' — 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 provoked provoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 15 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 graven graven ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 images image NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 vanities vanity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | | Zion's King | | | | in Zion | tree rules | | 2 | **provoke** | present · perfect | kings *= king* | Me | | | | with kings's graven images and strange vanities | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 3 | **image** | | kings *= king* | | | | | | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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} הִנֵּה־ק֞וֹל שַֽׁוְעַ֣ת בַּת־עַמִּ֗י מֵאֶ֙רֶץ֙ מַרְחַקִּ֔ים הַֽיהוָה֙ אֵ֣ין בְּצִיּ֔וֹן אִם־מַלְכָּ֖הּ אֵ֣ין בָּ֑הּ מַדּ֗וּעַ הִכְעִס֛וּנִי בִּפְסִלֵיהֶ֖ם בְּהַבְלֵ֥י נֵכָֽר׃ [Jeremiah 8:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.19/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.259/) 2. **Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' —** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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