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title: Jeremiah 12:17 (JPS 1917) — But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, pluc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD. Who acts: spoilers, I, LORD. Jeremiah 12:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:17 · JPS 1917

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But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** spoilers, I, LORD · **What happens:** not hearken, pluck up, destroy, say · **To what, where:** nation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 12:17 · 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 (spoilers, I, LORD), 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:370
# text = But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hearken** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | spoilers *= spoiler* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pluck up** | future | I | that nation |  |  | then |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 3 | **pluck up** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | I *not said here* | nation |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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וְאִ֖ם לֹ֣א יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ וְנָ֨תַשְׁתִּ֜י אֶת־הַגּ֥וֹי הַה֛וּא נָת֥וֹשׁ וְאַבֵּ֖ד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Jeremiah 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.17/)

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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:370` 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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