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title: Jeremiah 14:22 (JPS 1917) — Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain?… · tree and pragmatics
description: Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Who acts: heavens. Jeremiah 14:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers?

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**Who acts:** heavens · **What happens:** cause, give · **To what, where:** rain, showers

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This is Jeremiah 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (heavens), 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:429
# text = Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers?
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	_	1	expl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	nsubj	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vanities	vanity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can |  | rain |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | can | the heavens | showers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |

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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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הֲיֵ֨שׁ בְּהַבְלֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ מַגְשִׁמִ֔ים וְאִם־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם יִתְּנ֣וּ רְבִבִ֑ים הֲלֹ֨א אַתָּה־ה֜וּא יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ וּ֨נְקַוֶּה־לָּ֔ךְ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה עָשִׂ֖יתָ אֶת־כָּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃פ

[Jeremiah 14:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers?**
2. [Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.430/)
3. [For Thou hast made all these things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.431/)

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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:429` 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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