--- title: Jeremiah 22:6 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: T… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto Me, the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. Who acts: LORD, I. 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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, 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:586 # text = For thus saith the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto Me, the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 concerning concern ADP VBG _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 Gilead Gilead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 surely surely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 31 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 obj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 appos _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | concern the house of the king of Judah; thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Gilead | | | | unto Me | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | future | I | thee | | | | surely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | | 4 | **not** **inhabit** | present · passive | | cities | | | | | tree rules | 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} כִּֽי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה עַל־בֵּית֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה גִּלְעָ֥ד אַתָּ֛ה לִ֖י רֹ֣אשׁ הַלְּבָנ֑וֹן אִם־לֹ֤א אֲשִֽׁיתְךָ֙ מִדְבָּ֔ר עָרִ֖ים לֹ֥א נוֹשָֽׁבוּ׃ [Jeremiah 22:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:586` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 22:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.585/) - next →: [Jeremiah 22:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.587/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 22:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.6/)