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title: Jeremiah 9:12 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD saith: Because they have forsaken My law which I set be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD saith: Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein; Who acts: LORD, men, I. Jeremiah 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 9:12 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD saith: Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;

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**Who acts:** LORD, men, I · **What happens:** say, forsake, set, not hearken, walk · **To what, where:** law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 9:12 · 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 (LORD, men, 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:282
# text = And the LORD saith: Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forsake** | present · perfect | men *= man* | My law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past | I | My law |  |  | before men *= man* |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before they=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **hearken** | present · perfect | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to My voice | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | past | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה עַל־עָזְבָם֙ אֶת־תּ֣וֹרָתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִפְנֵיהֶ֑ם וְלֹא־שָׁמְע֥וּ בְקוֹלִ֖י וְלֹא־הָ֥לְכוּ בָֽהּ׃

[Jeremiah 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.12/)

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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:282` 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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