--- title: Jeremiah 15:17 (JPS 1917) — I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I s… · tree and pragmatics description: I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation. Who acts: I, assembly, Thou. Jeremiah 15:17 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.451/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/15/) / [15:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.17/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 15:17 · JPS 1917 I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation. **Who acts:** I, assembly, Thou · **What happens:** not sit, make, rejoice, sit, fill · **To what, where:** assembly, me This is Jeremiah 15:17 · 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 (I, assembly, Thou), 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:451 # text = I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with indignation. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 14 cc _ _ 14 rejoiced rejoice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 alone alone ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 26 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 indignation indignation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sit** | past | I | | | the assembly of joy | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in assembly=Location | | 2 | **make** | present | the assembly of joy | | | | | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **rejoice** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sit** | past | I | | | | | because Thy hand; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fill** | present · perfect | Thou | me | | | | with indignation | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with indignation=Instrument | 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} לֹֽא־יָשַׁ֥בְתִּי בְסוֹד־מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים וָֽאֶעְלֹ֑ז מִפְּנֵ֤י יָֽדְךָ֙ בָּדָ֣ד יָשַׁ֔בְתִּי כִּֽי־זַ֖עַם מִלֵּאתָֽנִי׃ס [Jeremiah 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:451` 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 15:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.450/) - next →: [Jeremiah 15:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.452/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 15:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.17/)