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title: Jeremiah 13:23 (JPS 1917) — Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. · tree and pragmatics
description: Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Who acts: ye. Jeremiah 13:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 13:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** good, evil

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This is Jeremiah 13:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (ye), 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:395
# text = Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	accustomed	accustom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | may | ye | good |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | accustom *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | evil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |

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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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הֲיַהֲפֹ֤ךְ כּוּשִׁי֙ עוֹר֔וֹ וְנָמֵ֖ר חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָ֑יו גַּם־אַתֶּם֙ תּוּכְל֣וּ לְהֵיטִ֔יב לִמֻּדֵ֖י הָרֵֽעַ׃

[Jeremiah 13:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.394/)
2. **Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.**

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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:395` 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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