--- title: Jeremiah 16:10 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this people all thes… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee: 'Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?' 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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 (place, thou, 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:466 # text = And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee: 'Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 iobj _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 26 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 27 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 pronounced pronounce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 42 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 iniquity iniquity NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 49 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 obj _ _ 50 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 acl:relcl _ _ 53 against against ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 56 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 appos _ _ 58 ? ? PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ 59 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | place | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | shall | thou | all words | this people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient word=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | people | | | | | unto thee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **pronounce** | present · perfect | the LORD | all great evil | | | | against us; wherefore *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | | our iniquity | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | | our sin | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **commit** | present · perfect | we | our sin | | | | against the LORD | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | 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} וְהָיָ֗ה כִּ֤י תַגִּיד֙ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְאָמְר֣וּ אֵלֶ֗יךָ עַל־מֶה֩ דִבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את וּמֶ֤ה עֲוֺנֵ֙נוּ֙ וּמֶ֣ה חַטָּאתֵ֔נוּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָטָ֖אנוּ לַֽיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ [Jeremiah 16:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:466` 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 16:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.465/) - next →: [Jeremiah 16:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.467/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 16:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.10/)