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title: Jeremiah 23:37 (JPS 1917) — Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: 'What hath the LORD answered the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: 'What hath the LORD answered thee?' and: 'What hath the LORD spoken?' Who acts: thou, LORD. Jeremiah 23:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:37 · JPS 1917

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Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: 'What hath the LORD answered thee?' and: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** say, answer, speak · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 23:37 · 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 (thou, LORD), 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:658
# text = Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: 'What hath the LORD answered thee?' and: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
11	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- 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* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | to the prophet; thus *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to prophet=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD | thee |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thou=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | 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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כֹּ֥ה תֹאמַ֖ר אֶל־הַנָּבִ֑יא מֶה־עָנָ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה וּמַה־דִּבֶּ֖ר יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 23:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.37/)

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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:658` 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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