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title: Jeremiah 11:17 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil again… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking Me by offering unto Baal. Who acts: LORD, branches. Jeremiah 11:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tr
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# Jeremiah 11:17 · JPS 1917

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For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking Me by offering unto Baal.

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**Who acts:** LORD, branches · **What happens:** plant, pronounce, wrought, provoke, offer · **To what, where:** thee, evil, house, Me

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This is Jeremiah 11:17 · 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, branches), 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:342
# text = For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking Me by offering unto Baal.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	_
39	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	provoking	provoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
41	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **plant** | past | the LORD of hosts | thee |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 2 | **pronounce** | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts | evil |  |  |  | against thee; because the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 3 | **wrought** | present · perfect | branches *= branch* | the house of Judah |  |  |  | for branches *= branch* | tree rules |
| 4 | **provoke** | gerund | branches *= branch* *not said here* | Me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 5 | **offer** | gerund | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Baal | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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וַיהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ הַנּוֹטֵ֣עַ אוֹתָ֔ךְ דִּבֶּ֥ר עָלַ֖יִךְ רָעָ֑ה בִּ֠גְלַל רָעַ֨ת בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל וּבֵ֣ית יְהוּדָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשׂ֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם לְהַכְעִסֵ֖נִי לְקַטֵּ֥ר לַבָּֽעַל׃ס

[Jeremiah 11:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.17/)

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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:342` 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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