--- title: Jeremiah 13:22 (JPS 1917) — And if thou say in thy heart: 'Wherefore are these things befallen m… · tree and pragmatics description: And if thou say in thy heart: 'Wherefore are these things befallen me?' — for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence. Who acts: thou, things, heels. 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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, things, heels), 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:393 # text = And if thou say in thy heart: 'Wherefore are these things befallen me?' — for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 10 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 befallen befall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 greatness greatness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 26 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 skirts skirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 uncovered uncover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | | | thy heart | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **befall** | present · passive | this things | me | | | | wherefore *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **uncover** | present · passive | | thy skirts | | | | for the greatness of thine iniquity | tree rules | | 4 | **suffer** | present | thy heels | violence | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violence=Stimulus | 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} וְכִ֤י תֹאמְרִי֙ בִּלְבָבֵ֔ךְ מַדּ֖וּעַ קְרָאֻ֣נִי אֵ֑לֶּה בְּרֹ֧ב עֲוֺנֵ֛ךְ נִגְל֥וּ שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ נֶחְמְס֥וּ עֲקֵבָֽיִךְ׃ [Jeremiah 13:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:393` 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 13:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.392/) - next →: [Jeremiah 13:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.394/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 13:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.22/)