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title: Jeremiah 20:9 (JPS 1917) — And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 20:9 · JPS 1917

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And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name', then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in, but cannot.

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**Who acts:** I, burning fire, mention, LORD · **What happens:** say, not make, speak, be, burn, shut up · **To what, where:** mention, name, heart, burning fire, bones, myself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 20:9 · 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 (I, burning fire, mention, LORD), 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:557
# text = And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name', then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in, but cannot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	any	any	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
35	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	weary	weary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
44	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **make** | future | I | mention of LORD |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Product |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | LORD's name |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | a burning fire |  |  | my heart; there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | mention | a burning fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shut up** | participle |  | a burning fire *not said here* |  | my bones |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **weary** | present | I | myself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **hold in** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **mention** |  |  | LORD |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **name** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וְאָמַרְתִּ֣י לֹֽא־אֶזְכְּרֶ֗נּוּ וְלֹֽא־אֲדַבֵּ֥ר עוֹד֙ בִּשְׁמ֔וֹ וְהָיָ֤ה בְלִבִּי֙ כְּאֵ֣שׁ בֹּעֶ֔רֶת עָצֻ֖ר בְּעַצְמֹתָ֑י וְנִלְאֵ֥יתִי כַּֽלְכֵ֖ל וְלֹ֥א אוּכָֽל׃

[Jeremiah 20:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.9/)

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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:557` 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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