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title: Jeremiah 23:22 (JPS 1917) — But if they have stood in My council, then let them cause My people… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if they have stood in My council, then let them cause My people to hear My words, and turn them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Who acts: prophets, you, people, My. Jeremiah 23:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:22 · JPS 1917

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But if they have stood in My council, then let them cause My people to hear My words, and turn them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

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**Who acts:** prophets, you, people, My · **What happens:** stand, let, cause, hear, turn, word · **To what, where:** council, words, prophets, evil way

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This is Jeremiah 23:22 · 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, you, people, My), 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:639
# text = But if they have stood in My council, then let them cause My people to hear My words, and turn them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | prophets *= prophet* |  |  | My council |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | My people | My words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 5 | **turn** | infinitive | prophets *= prophet* *not said here* | prophets *= prophet* |  | prophets's evil way |  | from the evil of prophets's doings | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from way=Source from evil=Trajectory |
| 6 | **word** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וְאִֽם־עָמְד֖וּ בְּסוֹדִ֑י וְיַשְׁמִ֤עוּ דְבָרַי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י וִֽישִׁבוּם֙ מִדַּרְכָּ֣ם הָרָ֔ע וּמֵרֹ֖עַ מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 23:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.22/)

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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:639` 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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