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title: Jeremiah 3:1 (JPS 1917) — But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD. Who acts: thou, LORD. Jeremiah 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** play, return, say · **To what, where:** harlot, Me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 3:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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 (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:70
# text = But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
19	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=disagree, indirect=1, polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect | thou | the harlot |  |  |  | with many lovers | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme with lover=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **return** | would | thou |  | Me |  | yet |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to i=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | 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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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/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.68/)
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.**

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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:70` 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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