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title: Jeremiah 22:28 (JPS 1917) — Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image? Who acts: man. Jeremiah 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 22:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image?

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** despised broken image

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This is Jeremiah 22:28 · 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 (man), 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:611
# text = Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	Coniah	Coniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	despised	despise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	broken	break	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **is a** | present | this man | a despised broken image |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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הַעֶ֨צֶב נִבְזֶ֜ה נָפ֗וּץ הָאִ֤ישׁ הַזֶּה֙ כָּנְיָ֔הוּ אִ֨ם־כְּלִ֔י אֵ֥ין חֵ֖פֶץ בּ֑וֹ מַדּ֤וּעַ הֽוּטֲלוּ֙ ה֣וּא וְזַרְע֔וֹ וְהֻ֨שְׁלְכ֔וּ עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָדָֽעוּ׃

[Jeremiah 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.28/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image?**
2. [Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.612/)
3. [Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.613/)

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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:611` 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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