--- title: Jeremiah 16:20 (JPS 1917) — Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? · tree and pragmatics description: Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? Who acts: man, men. Jeremiah 16:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.476/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/16/) / [16:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.20/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 16:20 · JPS 1917 Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? **Who acts:** man, men · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** gods This is Jeremiah 16:20 · 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 (man, 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:476 # text = Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? 1 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 7 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | shall | a man | gods | | | | unto LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | men *= man* | no gods | | | | | tree rules | 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} הֲיַעֲשֶׂה־לּ֥וֹ אָדָ֖ם אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְהֵ֖מָּה לֹ֥א אֱלֹהִֽים׃ [Jeremiah 16:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:476` 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 16:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.475/) - next →: [Jeremiah 16:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.477/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 16:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.16.20/)