--- title: Jeremiah 27:9 (JPS 1917) — But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviner… · tree and pragmatics description: But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; Who acts: ye, sorcerers, your. 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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 (ye, sorcerers, your), 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:745 # text = But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 16 cc _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 diviners diviner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 21 cc _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 soothsayers soothsayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sorcerers sorcerer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 unto unto ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 39 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 40 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 43 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hearken** | infinitive | ye | | | | | as you; to your prophets nor your diviners nor your dreams nor your soothsayers nor your sorcerers | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | your sorcerers | | | | | unto you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | your sorcerers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **serve** | shall | Ye | the king of Babylon | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | | 5 | **dream** | | your | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} וְ֠אַתֶּם אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ אֶל־נְבִיאֵיכֶ֜ם וְאֶל־קֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֗ם וְאֶל֙ חֲלֹמֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֶל־עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖ם וְאֶל־כַּשָּׁפֵיכֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֞ם אֹמְרִ֤ים אֲלֵיכֶם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א תַעַבְד֖וּ אֶת־מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃ [Jeremiah 27:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:745` 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 27:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.744/) - next →: [Jeremiah 27:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.746/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 27:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.9/)