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title: Jeremiah 16:19 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.' Who acts: nations, fathers, profit. Jeremiah 16:19 
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# Jeremiah 16:19 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'

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**Who acts:** nations, fathers, profit · **What happens:** come, say, inherit, be · **To what, where:** ends, nought · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 16:19 · 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 (nations, fathers, profit), 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:475
# text = O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	26	aux	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	36	aux	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
39	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	_
43	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
50	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
51	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	52	expl	_	_
52	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	54	det	_	_
54	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
56	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | shall | the nations |  |  |  | from the ends of the earth; day | unto Thee; LORD and my strength and my stronghold and my refuge *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | the nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **inherit** | present · perfect | Our fathers | nought but lies and vanity and things |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nought=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | no profit |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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יְהוָ֞ה עֻזִּ֧י וּמָעֻזִּ֛י וּמְנוּסִ֖י בְּי֣וֹם צָרָ֑ה אֵלֶ֗יךָ גּוֹיִ֤ם יָבֹ֙אוּ֙ מֵֽאַפְסֵי־אָ֔רֶץ וְיֹאמְר֗וּ אַךְ־שֶׁ֙קֶר֙ נָחֲל֣וּ אֲבוֹתֵ֔ינוּ הֶ֖בֶל וְאֵֽין־בָּ֥ם מוֹעִֽיל׃

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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:475` of Mova's parse database.

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