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title: Jeremiah 17:10 (JPS 1917) — I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man… · tree and pragmatics
description: I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. Who acts: I. Jeremiah 17:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 17:10 · JPS 1917

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I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** search, try, give · **To what, where:** heart, reins, man

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This is Jeremiah 17:10 · 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 (I), 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:487
# text = I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	search	search	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	according	according	ADP	VBG	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	according	according	ADP	VBG	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | present | I | the heart |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Location |
| 2 | **try** | present | I | the reins |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Eventuality |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | every man |  |  |  | according man's ways; according the fruit of man's doings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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אֲנִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה חֹקֵ֥ר לֵ֖ב בֹּחֵ֣ן כְּלָי֑וֹת וְלָתֵ֤ת לְאִישׁ֙ כִּדְרָכָ֔יו כִּפְרִ֖י מַעֲלָלָֽיו׃ס

[Jeremiah 17:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.10/)

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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:487` 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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