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title: Jeremiah 14:15 (JPS 1917) — Therefore thus saith the LORD: As for the prophets that prophesy in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore thus saith the LORD: As for the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed; Who acts: LORD, prophets, I, Sword. Jeremiah 14:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree an
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# Jeremiah 14:15 · JPS 1917

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Therefore thus saith the LORD: As for the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed;

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**Who acts:** LORD, prophets, I, Sword, My · **What happens:** say, prophesy, not send, not be, consume, name · **To what, where:** name, prophets, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 14:15 · 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 (LORD, prophets, I, Sword), 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:417
# text = Therefore thus saith the LORD: As for the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed;
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	As	as	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	Sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
42	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | as the prophets; therefore, thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prophesy** | present | the prophets |  |  | My name |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **send** | past | I | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | shall | Sword and famine |  |  | this land |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **consume** | shall · passive | sword and famine | that prophets |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 7 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | 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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לָכֵ֞ן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה עַֽל־הַנְּבִאִ֞ים הַנִּבְּאִ֣ים בִּשְׁמִי֮ וַאֲנִ֣י לֹֽא־שְׁלַחְתִּים֒ וְהֵ֙מָּה֙ אֹֽמְרִ֔ים חֶ֣רֶב וְרָעָ֔ב לֹ֥א יִהְיֶ֖ה בָּאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את בַּחֶ֤רֶב וּבָֽרָעָב֙ יִתַּ֔מּוּ הַנְּבִאִ֖ים הָהֵֽמָּה׃

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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:417` of Mova's parse database.

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