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title: Jeremiah 11:20 (JPS 1917) — But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the rein… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause. Who acts: LORD, you, me, I. Jeremiah 11:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 11:20 · JPS 1917

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But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.

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**Who acts:** LORD, you, me, I, my · **What happens:** judge, try, let, see, reveal, cause · **To what, where:** reins, me, vengeance, cause

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This is Jeremiah 11:20 · 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, you, me, 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:345
# text = But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	judgest	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	righteously	righteously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	triest	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	obl	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | present | LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | righteously *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | present | LORD of hosts | the reins and the heart |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Eventuality |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | LORD of hosts *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* | Thy vengeance |  |  |  | on branches *= branch* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vengeance=Stimulus |
| 5 | **reveal** | present · perfect | I | my cause |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 6 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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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וַֽיהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ שֹׁפֵ֣ט צֶ֔דֶק בֹּחֵ֥ן כְּלָי֖וֹת וָלֵ֑ב אֶרְאֶ֤ה נִקְמָֽתְךָ֙ מֵהֶ֔ם כִּ֥י אֵלֶ֖יךָ גִּלִּ֥יתִי אֶת־רִיבִֽי׃ס

[Jeremiah 11:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.20/)

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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:345` 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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