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title: Jeremiah 23:17 (JPS 1917) — They say continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said:… · tree and pragmatics
description: They say continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said: Ye shall have peace'; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: 'No evil shall come upon you'; Who acts: prophets, LORD, Ye, one. Jeremiah 23:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Jeremiah 23:17 · JPS 1917

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They say continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said: Ye shall have peace'; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: 'No evil shall come upon you';

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**Who acts:** prophets, LORD, Ye, one, evil · **What happens:** say, despise, have, walk, come · **To what, where:** Me, peace, stubbornness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 23:17 · 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 (prophets, LORD, Ye, one), 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:633
# text = They say continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said: Ye shall have peace'; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: 'No evil shall come upon you';
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	despise	despise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
39	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  | unto hosts *= host*; continually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **despise** | present |  | Me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | shall | Ye | peace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 5 | **walk** | present | every one |  |  | the stubbornness of LORD's own heart |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stubbornness=Trajectory |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  | unto every one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **come** | shall | no evil |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |

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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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אֹמְרִ֤ים אָמוֹר֙ לִֽמְנַאֲצַ֔י דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שָׁל֖וֹם יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם וְ֠כֹל הֹלֵ֞ךְ בִּשְׁרִר֤וּת לִבּוֹ֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹֽא־תָב֥וֹא עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 23:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.17/)

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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:633` 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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