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title: Jeremiah 17:21 (JPS 1917) — thus saith the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: thus saith the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Who acts: LORD. Jeremiah 17:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 17:21 · JPS 1917

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thus saith the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** say, take, bear, bring in · **To what, where:** heed, burden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 17:21 · 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 (LORD), 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:499
# text = thus saith the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
1	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | heed |  |  |  | for the sake of your souls | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent heed=Theme for sake=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **bear** | infinitive |  | no burden |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 4 | **bring in** | infinitive |  | burden |  |  |  | by the gates of Jerusalem | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Asset |

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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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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִשָּׁמְר֖וּ בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וְאַל־תִּשְׂא֤וּ מַשָּׂא֙ בְּי֣וֹם הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת וַהֲבֵאתֶ֖ם בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֥י יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Jeremiah 17:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.21/)

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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:499` 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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