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title: Jeremiah 9:3 (JPS 1917) — Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any bro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother acteth subtly, and every neighbour goeth about with slanders. Who acts: ye, brother, neighbour. Jeremiah 9:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 9:3 · JPS 1917

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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother acteth subtly, and every neighbour goeth about with slanders.

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**Who acts:** ye, brother, neighbour · **What happens:** take, not trust, act, go about · **To what, where:** heed

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This is Jeremiah 9:3 · 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 (ye, brother, neighbour), 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:270
# text = Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother acteth subtly, and every neighbour goeth about with slanders.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	acteth	act	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
22	subtly	subtly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	slanders	slander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | ye | heed |  |  |  | every one of LORD's neighbour *obl:unmarked* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **trust** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | in any brother | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** | present | every brother |  |  |  |  | subtly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go about** | present | every neighbour |  |  |  |  | with slanders; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with slander=Instrument |

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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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אִ֤ישׁ מֵרֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ הִשָּׁמֵ֔רוּ וְעַל־כָּל־אָ֖ח אַל־תִּבְטָ֑חוּ כִּ֤י כָל־אָח֙ עָק֣וֹב יַעְקֹ֔ב וְכָל־רֵ֖עַ רָכִ֥יל יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.3/)

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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:270` 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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