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title: Jeremiah 21:12 (JPS 1917) — O house of David, thus saith the LORD: Execute justice in the mornin… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 21:12 · JPS 1917

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O house of David, thus saith the LORD: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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**Who acts:** LORD, fury, none, My · **What happens:** say, execute, deliver, go, burn, quench · **To what, where:** justice, spoiled, hand, fury · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 21:12 · 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 (LORD, fury, none, My), 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:578
# text = O house of David, thus saith the LORD: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spoiled	spoil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	oppressor	oppressor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	42	nsubj	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	48	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **execute** | infinitive |  | justice |  |  | morning | house of David *vocative* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Patient |
| 3 | **deliver** | infinitive |  | the spoiled |  | the hand of the oppressor |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | My fury |  |  |  |  | like fire; because the evil of your doings; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | infinitive | My fury *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **quench** | can | none | fury |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 7 | **infuriate** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֗ד כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה דִּ֤ינוּ לַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וְהַצִּ֥ילוּ גָז֖וּל מִיַּ֣ד עוֹשֵׁ֑ק פֶּן־תֵּצֵ֨א כָאֵ֜שׁ חֲמָתִ֗י וּבָעֲרָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין מְכַבֶּ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י רֹ֥עַ מַעַלְלֵיכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 21:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.21.12/)

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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:578` of Mova's parse database.

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