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title: Jeremiah 22:15 (JPS 1917) — Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? · tree and pragmatics
description: Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Who acts: father. 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 2 of 3

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Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** not eat, drink, do · **To what, where:** justice

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This is Jeremiah 22:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (father), 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:596
# text = Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character, indirect=1, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | past · do-support | thy father |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | thy father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | thy father *not said here* | justice and righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.595/)
2. **Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?**
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:596` 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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