--- title: Jeremiah 22:13 (JPS 1917) — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his cha… · tree and pragmatics description: Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire; Who acts: neighbour. Jeremiah 22:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.593/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/22/) / [22:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.13/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 22:13 · JPS 1917 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire; **Who acts:** neighbour · **What happens:** build, use, not give, service · **To what, where:** house, service, hire, Shallum This is Jeremiah 22:13 · 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 (neighbour), 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:593 # text = Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire; 1 Woe woe INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 buildeth build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 unrighteousness unrighteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 chambers chamber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 injustice injustice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 useth use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hire hire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | | Shallum's house and Shallum's chambers by injustice | | | | by unrighteousness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | | 2 | **use** | present | | Shallum's neighbour's service | | | | without wages | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Patient | | 3 | **not** **give** | present | | Shallum's hire | Shallum | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hire=Theme | | 4 | **service** | | Shallum's neighbour | | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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} ה֣וֹי בֹּנֶ֤ה בֵיתוֹ֙ בְּֽלֹא־צֶ֔דֶק וַעֲלִיּוֹתָ֖יו בְּלֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּ֑ט בְּרֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ יַעֲבֹ֣ד חִנָּ֔ם וּפֹעֲל֖וֹ לֹ֥א יִתֶּן־לֽוֹ׃ [Jeremiah 22:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:593` 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 22:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.592/) - next →: [Jeremiah 22:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.594/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 22:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.13/)