--- title: Jeremiah 12:3 (JPS 1917) — But Thou, O LORD, knowest me, Thou seest me, and triest my heart tow… · tree and pragmatics description: But Thou, O LORD, knowest me, Thou seest me, and triest my heart toward Thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. Who acts: Thou. 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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 (Thou), 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:352 # text = But Thou, O LORD, knowest me, Thou seest me, and triest my heart toward Thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 knowest know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seest see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 triest try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 toward toward ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 prepare prepare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Thou *not said here* | me | | | | LORD *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | present | Thou | me | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **try** | present | Thou *not said here* | my heart | | | | toward Thee | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | | 4 | **pull out** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | reins *= rein* | | | | like sheep; for the slaughter | tree rules | | 5 | **prepare** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | reins *= rein* | | | day | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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} וְאַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ יְדַעְתָּ֔נִי תִּרְאֵ֕נִי וּבָחַנְתָּ֥ לִבִּ֖י אִתָּ֑ךְ הַתִּקֵם֙ כְּצֹ֣אן לְטִבְחָ֔ה וְהַקְדִּשֵׁ֖ם לְי֥וֹם הֲרֵגָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:352` 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 12:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.351/) - next →: [Jeremiah 12:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.353/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 12:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.3/)