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title: Jeremiah 26:5 (JPS 1917) — to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unt… · tree and pragmatics
description: to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even sending them betimes and often, but ye have not hearkened; Who acts: I, ye. Jeremiah 26:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 26:5 · JPS 1917

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to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even sending them betimes and often, but ye have not hearkened;

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** hearken, send, not hearken, word · **To what, where:** prophets, servants

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This is Jeremiah 26:5 · 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 (I, ye), 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:716
# text = to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even sending them betimes and often, but ye have not hearkened;
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	betimes	betimes	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the words of My servants | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | present | I | the prophets |  |  |  | unto you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | gerund | I *not said here* | prophets *= prophet* |  |  |  | betimes *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hearken** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | My servants |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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לִשְׁמֹ֗עַ עַל־דִּבְרֵ֨י עֲבָדַ֣י הַנְּבִאִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י שֹׁלֵ֣חַ אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וְהַשְׁכֵּ֥ם וְשָׁלֹ֖חַ וְלֹ֥א שְׁמַעְתֶּֽם׃

[Jeremiah 26:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.5/)

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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:716` 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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