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title: Jeremiah 22:15 (JPS 1917) — Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? · tree and pragmatics
description: Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Who acts: thou. Jeremiah 22:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 22:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** reign, strive, excel · **To what, where:** cedar

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This is Jeremiah 22:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (thou), 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:595
# text = Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar?
1	Shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	strivest	strive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	excel	excel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **excel** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | cedar |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in cedar=Eventuality |

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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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הֲתִֽמְלֹ֔ךְ כִּ֥י אַתָּ֖ה מְתַחֲרֶ֣ה בָאָ֑רֶז אָבִ֜יךָ הֲל֧וֹא אָכַ֣ל וְשָׁתָ֗ה וְעָשָׂ֤ה מִשְׁפָּט֙ וּצְדָקָ֔ה אָ֖ז ט֥וֹב לֽוֹ׃

[Jeremiah 22:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar?**
2. [Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.596/)
3. [Then it was well with him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.597/)

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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:595` 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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