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title: Jeremiah 26:4 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not he… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you, Who acts: thou, LORD, ye, I. Jeremiah 26:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 26:4 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you,

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**Who acts:** thou, LORD, ye, I · **What happens:** say, not hearken, walk, set · **To what, where:** Me, law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 26:4 · 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, ye, I), 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:715
# text = And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | unto cities *= city* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **hearken** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye |  | Me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  | My law |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in law=Trajectory |
| 5 | **set** | present · perfect | I | My law |  |  | before you |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before you=Destination |

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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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וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה אִם־לֹ֤א תִשְׁמְעוּ֙ אֵלַ֔י לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ בְּת֣וֹרָתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לִפְנֵיכֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 26:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.4/)

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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:715` 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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