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title: Jeremiah 22:8 (JPS 1917) — And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every m… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 22:8 · JPS 1917

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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour: 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?'

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**Who acts:** many nations, nations, LORD · **What happens:** pass, say, do · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 22:8 · 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 (many nations, nations, 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:588
# text = And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour: 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: ask
- 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 | **pass** | shall | many nations |  |  |  |  | by this city | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by city=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | nations *= nation* | every man |  |  |  | to man's neighbour | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto this great city; thus, wherefore *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וְעָֽבְרוּ֙ גּוֹיִ֣ם רַבִּ֔ים עַ֖ל הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֔הוּ עַל־מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ כָּ֔כָה לָעִ֥יר הַגְּדוֹלָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

[Jeremiah 22:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.8/)

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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:588` 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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