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title: Jeremiah 18:18 (JPS 1917) — Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.' Who acts: you, us, word. 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 2 of 2

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Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'

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**Who acts:** you, us, word · **What happens:** come, let, smite, not give, word · **To what, where:** us, word, heed

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This is Jeremiah 18:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, us, 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:525
# text = Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	any	any	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive | us *not said here* | word |  |  |  | with the tongue | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with tongue=Instrument |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **give** | infinitive | us *not said here* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent heed=Recipient any=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | word |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.524/)
2. **Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.'**

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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:525` 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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