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title: Jeremiah 18:20 (JPS 1917) — Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn awa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them. Who acts: you, I. Jeremiah 18:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** remember, stand, speak, turn away · **To what, where:** Thee, good, wrath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 18:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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: who acts (you, I), 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:529
# text = Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | I |  |  | Thee |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | good |  |  |  | for people | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Thy wrath |  |  |  | from people | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme from they=Source |

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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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Shall evil be recompensed for good?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.527/)
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.**

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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:529` 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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