--- title: Jeremiah 14:21 (JPS 1917) — Do not contemn us, for Thy name's sake, do not dishonour the throne… · tree and pragmatics description: Do not contemn us, for Thy name's sake, do not dishonour the throne of Thy glory; remember, break not Thy covenant with us. Who acts: you, Thy. Jeremiah 14:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.428/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/14/) / [14:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.21/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 14:21 · JPS 1917 Do not contemn us, for Thy name's sake, do not dishonour the throne of Thy glory; remember, break not Thy covenant with us. **Who acts:** you, Thy · **What happens:** not contemn, not dishonour, remember, not break, name, glory · **To what, where:** us, throne, covenant This is Jeremiah 14:21 · 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 (you, Thy), 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:428 # text = Do not contemn us, for Thy name's sake, do not dishonour the throne of Thy glory; remember, break not Thy covenant with us. 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 contemn contemn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 dishonour dishonour VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 break break VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 25 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **contemn** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | us | | | | for Thy name's sake | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **dishonour** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | the throne of Thy glory | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throne=Experiencer | | 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **break** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thy covenant | | | | with us | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent covenant=Patient with we=Instrument | | 5 | **name** | | Thy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **glory** | | Thy | | | | | | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **covenant** | | Thy | | | | | | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} אַל־תִּנְאַץ֙ לְמַ֣עַן שִׁמְךָ֔ אַל־תְּנַבֵּ֖ל כִּסֵּ֣א כְבוֹדֶ֑ךָ זְכֹ֕ר אַל־תָּפֵ֥ר בְּרִֽיתְךָ֖ אִתָּֽנוּ׃ [Jeremiah 14:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:428` 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 14:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.427/) - next →: [Jeremiah 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.429/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 14:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.21/)