--- title: Jeremiah 3:1 (JPS 1917) — ...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and beco… · tree and pragmatics description: ...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, may he return unto her again? Who acts: man, wife. Jeremiah 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/3/) / [3:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.1/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 ...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, may he return unto her again? **Who acts:** man, wife · **What happens:** say, put away, go, become, return · **To what, where:** wife, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (man, wife), 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:68 # text = ...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, may he return unto her again? 1 ... ... PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 8 away away ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 27 unto unto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **put away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a man | | man's wife | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Goal | | 3 | **go** | present | wife | | | | | from man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **become** | present | a man *not said here* | another man | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **return** | may | man | | | | again | unto wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} לֵאמֹ֡ר הֵ֣ן יְשַׁלַּ֣ח אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ֩ וְהָלְכָ֨ה מֵאִתּ֜וֹ וְהָיְתָ֣ה לְאִישׁ־אַחֵ֗ר הֲיָשׁ֤וּב אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ ע֔וֹד הֲל֛וֹא חָנ֥וֹף תֶּחֱנַ֖ף הָאָ֣רֶץ הַהִ֑יא וְאַ֗תְּ זָנִית֙ רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים וְשׁ֥וֹב אֵלַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **...saying: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, may he return unto her again?** 2. [Will not that land be greatly polluted?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.69/) 3. [But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.70/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:68` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 2:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.67/) - next →: [Jeremiah 3:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.69/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 3:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.1/)