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title: Jeremiah 9:8 (JPS 1917) — Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Who acts: I, LORD. Jeremiah 9:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 9:8 · JPS 1917

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Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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**Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** not punish, say, not avenge · **To what, where:** people, soul, nation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 9:8 · 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, 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:275
# text = Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **punish** | shall | I | people |  |  |  | for this things | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient for thing=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **avenge** | shall · passive |  | My soul |  | such nation |  | as this | tree rules |

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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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הַעַל־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹֽא־אֶפְקָד־בָּ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה אִ֚ם בְּג֣וֹי אֲשֶׁר־כָּזֶ֔ה לֹ֥א תִתְנַקֵּ֖ם נַפְשִֽׁי׃ס

[Jeremiah 9:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.8/)

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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:275` 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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