--- title: Jeremiah 15:20 (JPS 1917) — And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and t… · tree and pragmatics description: And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Who acts: I, people, LORD. 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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, people, LORD), 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:455 # text = And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fortified fortify ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 prevail prevail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 advcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 obj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=promise | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | future | I | thee | | | | unto this people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | | 2 | **fight** | shall | people | | | | | against thee | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **prevail** | shall | people | | | thee | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thou=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | with thee | tree rules | | 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 6 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} וּנְתַתִּ֜יךָ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה לְחוֹמַ֤ת נְחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ בְּצוּרָ֔ה וְנִלְחֲמ֥וּ אֵלֶ֖יךָ וְלֹא־י֣וּכְלוּ לָ֑ךְ כִּֽי־אִתְּךָ֥ אֲנִ֛י לְהוֹשִֽׁיעֲךָ֥ וּלְהַצִּילֶ֖ךָ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 15:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:455` 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 15:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.454/) - next →: [Jeremiah 15:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.456/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 15:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.20/)