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title: Jeremiah 15:18 (JPS 1917) — Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? Who acts: Thou, waters. Jeremiah 15:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 15:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

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**Who acts:** Thou, waters · **What happens:** be, fail

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This is Jeremiah 15:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, waters), 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:453
# text = Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  | as a deceitful brook and waters; unto me; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | present | waters |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּמַכָּתִ֖י אֲנוּשָׁ֑ה֙ מֵֽאֲנָה֙ הֵֽרָפֵ֔א הָי֨וֹ תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לִי֙ כְּמ֣וֹ אַכְזָ֔ב מַ֖יִם לֹ֥א נֶאֱמָֽנוּ׃ס

[Jeremiah 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.452/)
2. **Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?**

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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:453` 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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