--- title: Jeremiah 14:22 (JPS 1917) — Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? · tree and pragmatics description: Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? Who acts: Thou, we. Jeremiah 14:22 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.430/) [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/) / [14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.22/) / JPS 2 # Jeremiah 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? **Who acts:** Thou, we · **What happens:** not be, not wait · **To what, where:** rain This is Jeremiah 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Thou, 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:430 # text = Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? 1 Art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 O o INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ 8 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obl _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Thou | rain | | | | LORD *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **wait** | present · do-support | we | | | | | for Thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.429/) 2. **Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee?** 3. [For Thou hast made all these things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.431/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:430` 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 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.429/) - next →: [Jeremiah 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.431/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.22/)