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title: Jeremiah 23:13 (JPS 1917) — And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophe… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err. Who acts: I, prophets, people. Jeremiah 23:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:13 · JPS 1917

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And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.

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**Who acts:** I, prophets, people · **What happens:** see, prophesy, cause, err · **To what, where:** unseemliness, prophets, people

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This is Jeremiah 23:13 · 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 (I, prophets, people), 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:629
# text = And I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	unseemliness	unseemliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Baal	Baal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	err	err	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **see** | present · perfect | I | unseemliness |  | the prophets of Samaria |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer unseemliness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prophesy** | past | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  | by Baal | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | past | prophets *= prophet* *not said here* | My people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **err** | to-infinitive | My people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וּבִנְבִיאֵ֥י שֹׁמְר֖וֹן רָאִ֣יתִי תִפְלָ֑ה הִנַּבְּא֣וּ בַבַּ֔עַל וַיַּתְע֥וּ אֶת־עַמִּ֖י אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

[Jeremiah 23:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.13/)

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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:629` 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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