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title: Jeremiah 18:23 (JPS 1917) — Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Thy sight; but let them be made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger. Who acts: Thou, people, Thy, Thine. Jeremiah 18:23 in JPS 1917 with its
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# Jeremiah 18:23 · JPS 1917

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Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Thy sight; but let them be made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.

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**Who acts:** Thou, people, Thy, Thine · **What happens:** know, slay, not forgive, blot out, let, make · **To what, where:** counsel, me, iniquity, sin, sight, people

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This is Jeremiah 18:23 · 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 (Thou, people, Thy, Thine), 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:532
# text = Yet, LORD, Thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Thy sight; but let them be made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	blot	blot	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Deal	deal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
41	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Thou | people's counsel |  |  |  | against me; LORD *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **forgive** | infinitive |  | people's iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 4 | **blot out** | infinitive |  | people's sin |  | Thy sight |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sin=Destination |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stumble** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | Thee |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before thou=Trajectory |
| 8 | **deal** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  | time | with people | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme |
| 9 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **anger** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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וְאַתָּ֣ה יְ֠הוָה יָדַ֜עְתָּ אֶֽת־כָּל־עֲצָתָ֤ם עָלַי֙ לַמָּ֔וֶת אַל־תְּכַפֵּר֙ עַל־עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ אַל־תֶּ֑מְחִי וְיִהְי֤וּ מֻכְשָׁלִים֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ בְּעֵ֥ת אַפְּךָ֖ עֲשֵׂ֥ה בָהֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.23/)

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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:532` of Mova's parse database.

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