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title: Jeremiah 27:17 (JPS 1917) — Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate? Who acts: you, city. Jeremiah 27:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 27:17 · JPS 1917

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Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?

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**Who acts:** you, city · **What happens:** not hearken, serve, live, become · **To what, where:** king

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This is Jeremiah 27:17 · 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 (you, city), 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:753
# text = Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?
1	Hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
20	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto prophets *= prophet* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | infinitive |  | the king of Babylon |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | should | this city |  |  |  |  | desolate, wherefore *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת־מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽחְי֑וּ לָ֧מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה׃

[Jeremiah 27:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.17/)

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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:753` 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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