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title: Jeremiah 22:16 (JPS 1917) — He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. · tree and pragmatics
description: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Who acts: father, cause. Jeremiah 22:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 22:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.

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**Who acts:** father, cause · **What happens:** judge, be, cause · **To what, where:** cause, poor

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This is Jeremiah 22:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, cause), 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:598
# text = He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | past | father | the cause of the poor |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent cause=Value |
| 2 | **is** | past | cause |  |  |  | then | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** |  |  | the poor |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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דָּ֛ן דִּין־עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֖וֹן אָ֣ז ט֑וֹב הֲלוֹא־הִ֛יא הַדַּ֥עַת אֹתִ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 22:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.**
2. [Is not this to know Me? saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.599/)

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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:598` 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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