--- title: Jeremiah 18:20 (JPS 1917) — Shall evil be recompensed for good? · tree and pragmatics description: Shall evil be recompensed for good? Jeremiah 18:20 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.527/) [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/) / [18:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.20/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 Shall evil be recompensed for good? **What happens:** recompense · **To what, where:** evil This is Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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:527 # text = Shall evil be recompensed for good? 1 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 recompensed recompense VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1, act=express | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recompense** | shall · passive | | evil | | | | for good | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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} הַיְשֻׁלַּ֤ם תַּֽחַת־טוֹבָה֙ רָעָ֔ה כִּֽי־כָר֥וּ שׁוּחָ֖ה לְנַפְשִׁ֑י זְכֹ֣ר ׀ עָמְדִ֣י לְפָנֶ֗יךָ לְדַבֵּ֤ר עֲלֵיהֶם֙ טוֹבָ֔ה לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֶת־חֲמָתְךָ֖ מֵהֶֽם׃ [Jeremiah 18:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.20/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Shall evil be recompensed for good?** 2. [For they have digged a pit for my soul.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.528/) 3. [Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.529/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:527` 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 18:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.526/) - next →: [Jeremiah 18:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.528/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 18:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.20/)