--- title: Jeremiah 2:22 (JPS 1917) — For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet t… · tree and pragmatics description: For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: thou, Lord GOD. Jeremiah 2:22 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.44/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/2/) / [2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 2:22 · JPS 1917 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD. **Who acts:** thou, Lord GOD · **What happens:** wash, take, mark, say · **To what, where:** thee, much soap, iniquity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 2:22 · 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 (thou, Lord GOD), 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:44 # text = For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 though though SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wash wash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 nitre nitre NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 iobj _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | present | thou | thee | | | | with nitre | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with nitre=Instrument | | 2 | **take** | present | thou *not said here* | much soap | thee | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme soap=Destination | | 3 | **mark** | present · passive | | thine iniquity | | | before Me | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme before i=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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} כִּ֤י אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּנֶּ֔תֶר וְתַרְבִּי־לָ֖ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ לְפָנַ֔י נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ [Jeremiah 2:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:44` 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 2:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.43/) - next →: [Jeremiah 2:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.45/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/)