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title: Jeremiah 25:14 (JPS 1917) — For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them also; an… · tree and pragmatics
description: For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their own hands. Who acts: many nations, I, own hands. Jeremiah 25:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 25:14 · JPS 1917

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For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their own hands.

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**Who acts:** many nations, I, own hands · **What happens:** make, recompense, accord, work · **To what, where:** bondmen, nations

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This is Jeremiah 25:14 · 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 (many nations, I, own hands), 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:685
# text = For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their own hands.
1	For	for	DET	DT	_	3	det	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	recompense	recompense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | for many nations and great kings | bondmen of bondmen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bondman=Product |
| 2 | **recompense** | future | I | nations *= nation* |  |  |  | accord nations's deeds and the work of nations's own hands | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** |  | nations's own hands |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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כִּ֣י עָֽבְדוּ־בָ֤ם גַּם־הֵ֙מָּה֙ גּוֹיִ֣ם רַבִּ֔ים וּמְלָכִ֖ים גְּדוֹלִ֑ים וְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֥י לָהֶ֛ם כְּפָעֳלָ֖ם וּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵיהֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 25:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.14/)

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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:685` 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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