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title: Jeremiah 18:18 (JPS 1917) — Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Who acts: people, us, instruction. Jeremiah 18:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 18:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.

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**Who acts:** people, us, instruction · **What happens:** say, come, let, devise, not perish · **To what, where:** us, devices, priest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 18:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, us, instruction), 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:524
# text = Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	devise	devise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wise	wise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- 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* | past | people |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **devise** | infinitive | us *not said here* | devices |  |  |  | against Jeremiah | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **perish** | shall | instruction nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet |  |  | the priest |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from priest=Causer |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ לְכ֨וּ וְנַחְשְׁבָ֣ה עַֽל־יִרְמְיָהוּ֮ מַחֲשָׁבוֹת֒ כִּי֩ לֹא־תֹאבַ֨ד תּוֹרָ֜ה מִכֹּהֵ֗ן וְעֵצָה֙ מֵֽחָכָ֔ם וְדָבָ֖ר מִנָּבִ֑יא לְכוּ֙ וְנַכֵּ֣הוּ בַלָּשׁ֔וֹן וְאַל־נַקְשִׁ֖יבָה אֶל־כָּל־דְּבָרָֽיו׃

[Jeremiah 18:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.**
2. [Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.525/)

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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:524` 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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