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title: Jeremiah 23:33 (JPS 1917) — And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying: 'What is the burden of the LORD?' then shalt thou say unto them: 'What burden! Who acts: people, thou. Jeremiah 23:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying: 'What is the burden of the LORD?' then shalt thou say unto them: 'What burden!

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**Who acts:** people, thou · **What happens:** ask, say, be · **To what, where:** thee, burden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 23:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (people, thou), 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:653
# text = And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying: 'What is the burden of the LORD?' then shalt thou say unto them: 'What burden!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
38	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	39	det	_	_
39	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | shall | this people or the prophet or a priest | thee |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | this people or the prophet or a priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the burden |  |  |  | of the LORD | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  | then | unto people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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וְכִי־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֩ הָעָ֨ם הַזֶּ֜ה אֽוֹ־הַנָּבִ֤יא אֽוֹ־כֹהֵן֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מַה־מַשָּׂ֖א יְהוָ֑ה וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ אֶת־מַה־מַשָּׂ֔א וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 23:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.33/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying: 'What is the burden of the LORD?' then shalt thou say unto them: 'What burden!**
2. [I will cast you off, saith the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.654/)

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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:653` 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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