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title: Jeremiah 14:7 (JPS 1917) — Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, work Thou for Thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, work Thou for Thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against Thee. Who acts: iniquities, Thou, backslidings, we. Jeremiah 14:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 14:7 · JPS 1917

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Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, work Thou for Thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against Thee.

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**Who acts:** iniquities, Thou, backslidings, we, Thy · **What happens:** testify, work, be, sin, name

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This is Jeremiah 14:7 · 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 (iniquities, Thou, backslidings, we), 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:408
# text = Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, work Thou for Thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against Thee.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	iniquities	iniquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	testify	testify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	backslidings	backsliding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **testify** *speech: other* | present | our iniquities |  |  |  |  | against us; LORD *vocative* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  | for Thy name's sake | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sake=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | our backslidings |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sin** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | against Thee | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary |
| 5 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִם־עֲוֺנֵ֙ינוּ֙ עָ֣נוּ בָ֔נוּ יְהוָ֕ה עֲשֵׂ֖ה לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־רַבּ֥וּ מְשׁוּבֹתֵ֖ינוּ לְךָ֥ חָטָֽאנוּ׃

[Jeremiah 14:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.7/)

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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:408` 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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