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title: Jeremiah 17:15 (JPS 1917) — Behold, they say unto me: 'Where is the word of the LORD? let it com… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, they say unto me: 'Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.' Who acts: places, word. Jeremiah 17:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 17:15 · JPS 1917

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Behold, they say unto me: 'Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.'

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**Who acts:** places, word · **What happens:** say, be, let, come · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 17:15 · 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 (places, word), 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:493
# text = Behold, they say unto me: 'Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.'
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | places *= place* |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the word |  |  |  | of the LORD | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | word *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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הִנֵּה־הֵ֕מָּה אֹמְרִ֖ים אֵלָ֑י אַיֵּ֥ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה יָ֥בוֹא נָֽא׃

[Jeremiah 17:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.15/)

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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:493` 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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