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title: Jeremiah 16:7 (JPS 1917) — neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them… · tree and pragmatics
description: neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Who acts: men. Jeremiah 16:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 16:7 · JPS 1917

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neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** break, comfort, give, drink · **To what, where:** bread, mourning, men, cup, great

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This is Jeremiah 16:7 · 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 (men), 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:463
# text = neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
1	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | shall | men | bread |  | mourning |  | for great | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Patient |
| 2 | **comfort** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  | for the dead | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** | shall | men | the cup of consolation | great |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cup=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | the cup of consolation *not said here* |  |  |  | for men's father or men's mother | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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וְלֹֽא־יִפְרְס֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם עַל־אֵ֖בֶל לְנַחֲמ֣וֹ עַל־מֵ֑ת וְלֹֽא־יַשְׁק֤וּ אוֹתָם֙ כּ֣וֹס תַּנְחוּמִ֔ים עַל־אָבִ֖יו וְעַל־אִמּֽוֹ׃

[Jeremiah 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.7/)

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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:463` 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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