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title: Jeremiah 9:1 (JPS 1917) — Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring me… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! Who acts: I. Jeremiah 9:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 9:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, leave, go · **To what, where:** wilderness, people

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This is Jeremiah 9:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (I), 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:267
# text = Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	wayfaring	wayfaring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the wilderness |  | in a lodging place of wayfaring men | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | might | I | my people |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |

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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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מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֣נִי בַמִּדְבָּ֗ר מְלוֹן֙ אֹֽרְחִ֔ים וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י וְאֵלְכָ֖ה מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם כִּ֤י כֻלָּם֙ מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים עֲצֶ֖רֶת בֹּגְדִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 9:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!**
2. [For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.268/)

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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:267` 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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