--- title: Jeremiah 11:22 (JPS 1917) — therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them;… · tree and pragmatics description: therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; Who acts: LORD, I, young men, sons. 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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, I, young men, sons), 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:347 # text = therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 1 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts | | | | | therefore, thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **punish** | future | I | hosts *= host* | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **die** | shall | the young men | | | | | by the sword | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **die** | shall | men's sons and men's daughters | | | | | by famine | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְנִ֥י פֹקֵ֖ד עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם הַבַּֽחוּרִים֙ יָמֻ֣תוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב בְּנֵיהֶם֙ וּבְנ֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם יָמֻ֖תוּ בָּרָעָֽב׃ [Jeremiah 11:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:347` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 11:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.346/) - next →: [Jeremiah 11:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.348/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.22/)