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title: Jeremiah 22:17 (JPS 1917) — But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and f… · tree and pragmatics
description: But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. Who acts: eyes. Jeremiah 22:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 22:17 · JPS 1917

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But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** not be, shed, do · **To what, where:** innocent blood, blood

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This is Jeremiah 22:17 · 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 (eyes), 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:600
# text = But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	covetousness	covetousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | thine eyes and thy heart |  |  |  |  | for thy covetousness and oppression and violence | tree rules |
| 2 | **shed** | gerund | thine eyes and thy heart *not said here* | innocent blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | thine eyes and thy heart *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ וְלִבְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־עַל־בִּצְעֶ֑ךָ וְעַ֤ל דַּֽם־הַנָּקִי֙ לִשְׁפּ֔וֹךְ וְעַל־הָעֹ֥שֶׁק וְעַל־הַמְּרוּצָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ס

[Jeremiah 22:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.17/)

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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:600` 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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