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title: Jeremiah 18:19 (JPS 1917) — Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that conte… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. Who acts: you, voice. Jeremiah 18:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 18:19 · JPS 1917

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Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

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**Who acts:** you, voice · **What happens:** give, hearken, contend · **To what, where:** heed, me

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This is Jeremiah 18:19 · 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 (you, voice), 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:526
# text = Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	contend	contend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed | me |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the voice of people | tree rules |
| 3 | **contend** | present | the voice of people |  |  |  |  | with me | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י וּשְׁמַ֖ע לְק֥וֹל יְרִיבָֽי׃

[Jeremiah 18:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.19/)

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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:526` 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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