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title: Jeremiah 3:5 (JPS 1917) — Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done… · tree and pragmatics
description: Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way. Who acts: rain, thou. Jeremiah 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

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**Who acts:** rain, thou · **What happens:** keep, speak, do, have · **To what, where:** grudge, evil things, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (rain, thou), 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:76
# text = Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | future | rain | grudge |  |  | to the end |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | thou *not said here* | evil things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | thou *not said here* | thy way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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הֲיִנְטֹ֣ר לְעוֹלָ֔ם אִם־יִשְׁמֹ֖ר לָנֶ֑צַח הִנֵּ֥ה דִבַּ֛רְתְּוַתַּעֲשִׂ֥י הָרָע֖וֹת וַתּוּכָֽל׃פ

[Jeremiah 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Will He bear grudge for ever?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.75/)
2. **Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.**

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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:76` 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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