--- title: Jeremiah 22:9 (JPS 1917) — Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LO… · tree and pragmatics description: Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.' Who acts: nations, LORD. 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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 (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:589 # text = Then they shall answer: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 forsook forsake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 worshipped worship VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | shall | nations *= nation* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **forsake** | past | nations *= nation* | the covenant of the LORD | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **worship** | past | nations *= nation* *not said here* | other gods | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | | 4 | **serve** | past | nations *= nation* *not said here* | nations *= nation* | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute | | 5 | **covenant** | | the LORD | | | | | | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וְאָ֣מְר֔וּ עַ֚ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָֽזְב֔וּ אֶת־בְּרִ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֛וּ לֵאלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים וַיַּעַבְדֽוּם׃ס [Jeremiah 22:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:589` 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 22:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.588/) - next →: [Jeremiah 22:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.590/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 22:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.9/)