--- title: Jeremiah 18:15 (JPS 1917) — For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they ha… · tree and pragmatics description: For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up; Who acts: people. Jeremiah 18:15 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.521/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/18/) / [18:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 18:15 · JPS 1917 For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up; **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** forget, offer, make, stumble, walk, not cast up · **To what, where:** Me, people, ways, bypaths, way This is Jeremiah 18:15 · 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 (people), 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:521 # text = For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up; 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 hath have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 6 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 offer offer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 stumble stumble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 paths path NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 bypaths bypath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 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 | **forget** | present · perfect | My people | Me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **offer** | present | people | | | | | unto vanity | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stumble** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | people's ways | | in the ancient paths | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | | 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | bypaths | | in a way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bypath=Trajectory | | 6 | **not** **cast up** | participle | | a way *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} כִּֽי־שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי עַמִּ֖י לַשָּׁ֣וְא יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ וַיַּכְשִׁל֤וּם בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם֙ שְׁבִילֵ֣י עוֹלָ֔ם לָלֶ֣כֶת נְתִיב֔וֹת דֶּ֖רֶךְ לֹ֥א סְלוּלָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 18:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:521` 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 18:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.520/) - next →: [Jeremiah 18:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.522/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 18:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.15/)