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title: Jeremiah 29:23 (JPS 1917) — because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed a… · tree and pragmatics
description: because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD. Who acts: words, I, LORD, My. Jeremiah 29:23 in JPS 1917 with its 
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# Jeremiah 29:23 · JPS 1917

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because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** words, I, LORD, My · **What happens:** wrought, commit, speak, not command, be, know · **To what, where:** vile deeds, Israel, adultery, words, name, witness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 29:23 · 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 (words, I, LORD, My), 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:798
# text = because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD.
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
5	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	falsely	falsely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	ccomp	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrought** | present · perfect | words *= word* | vile deeds |  | Israel |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **commit** | present · perfect | words *= word* *not said here* | adultery |  |  |  | with words's neighbours's wives | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | words *= word* *not said here* | words |  | My name |  | falsely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **command** | past | I | words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | I | Israel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | present | I *not said here* | witness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יַ֡עַן אֲשֶׁר֩ עָשׂ֨וּ נְבָלָ֜ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיְנַֽאֲפוּ֙ אֶת־נְשֵׁ֣י רֵֽעֵיהֶ֔ם וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ דָבָ֤ר בִּשְׁמִי֙ שֶׁ֔קֶר אֲשֶׁ֖ר ל֣וֹא צִוִּיתִ֑ם וְאָנֹכִ֛י הַיּוֹדֵ֥עַוָעֵ֖ד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Jeremiah 29:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.23/)

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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:798` 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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