--- title: Jeremiah 17:16 (JPS 1917) — As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; nei… · tree and pragmatics description: As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee. Who acts: I, Thou, that. Jeremiah 17:16 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.494/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/17/) / [17:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.16/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 17:16 · JPS 1917 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee. **Who acts:** I, Thou, that · **What happens:** not hasten, be, desire, know, come out · **To what, where:** shepherd, lips This is Jeremiah 17:16 · 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, Thou, that), 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:494 # text = As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee. 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 3 case _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 desired desire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 woeful woeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 knowest know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 manifest manifest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hasten** | present · perfect | I | | | | | as me | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | I *not said here* | a shepherd | | | after Thee | | tree rules | | 3 | **desire** | present · perfect | I | | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **know** | present | Thou | shepherd | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **come out** | past | | my lips | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lip=Result | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | before Thee | manifest *property* | 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} וַאֲנִ֞י לֹא־אַ֣צְתִּי ׀ מֵרֹעֶ֣ה אַחֲרֶ֗יךָ וְי֥וֹם אָנ֛וּשׁ לֹ֥א הִתְאַוֵּ֖יתִי אַתָּ֣ה יָדָ֑עְתָּ מוֹצָ֣א שְׂפָתַ֔י נֹ֥כַח פָּנֶ֖יךָ הָיָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 17:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:494` 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 17:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.493/) - next →: [Jeremiah 17:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.495/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 17:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.16/)