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title: Jeremiah 20:16 (JPS 1917) — And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide; Who acts: you, man, LORD. Jeremiah 20:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 20:16 · JPS 1917

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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;

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**Who acts:** you, man, LORD · **What happens:** let, be, overthrow, not repent, hear · **To what, where:** man, cities, cry

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This is Jeremiah 20:16 · 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, man, 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:564
# text = And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	xcomp	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	noontide	noontide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | that man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | that man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the cities | tree rules |
| 3 | **overthrow** | past | the LORD | the cities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **repent** | past | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | infinitive | man *not said here* | a cry and a alarm at noontide |  |  | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |

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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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וְהָיָה֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־הָפַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א נִחָ֑ם וְשָׁמַ֤ע זְעָקָה֙ בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וּתְרוּעָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥ת צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

[Jeremiah 20:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.16/)

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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:564` 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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