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title: Jeremiah 23:29 (JPS 1917) — Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Who acts: LORD, hammer. Jeremiah 23:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:29 · JPS 1917

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Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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**Who acts:** LORD, hammer · **What happens:** not be, say, break · **To what, where:** word, rock, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 23:29 · 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 (LORD, hammer), 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:649
# text = Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	breaketh	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | My word and a hammer |  |  |  | like fire | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | present | a hammer | the rock |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Patient |

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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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הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ס

[Jeremiah 23:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/)

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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:649` 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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