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title: Jeremiah 11:12 (JPS 1917) — Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer; but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. Who acts: cities, inhabitants. Jeremiah 11:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 11:12 · JPS 1917

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Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer; but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

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**Who acts:** cities, inhabitants · **What happens:** go, cry, offer, not save, trouble · **To what, where:** cities, all

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This is Jeremiah 11:12 · 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 (cities, inhabitants), 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:336
# text = Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer; but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go** | shall | the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the gods | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **offer** | present | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | unto the gods | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **save** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | cities *= city* |  | all | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at all=Asset |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְהָֽלְכ֞וּ עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֗ה וְיֹשְׁבֵי֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְזָֽעֲקוּ֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥ם מְקַטְּרִ֖ים לָהֶ֑ם וְהוֹשֵׁ֛עַ לֹֽא־יוֹשִׁ֥יעוּ לָהֶ֖ם בְּעֵ֥ת רָעָתָֽם׃

[Jeremiah 11:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.12/)

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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:336` 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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