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title: Jeremiah 31:20 (JPS 1917) — For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; T… · tree and pragmatics
description: For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD. Who acts: I, heart, LORD. Jeremiah 31:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** I, heart, LORD · **What happens:** speak, remember, yearn, say · **To what, where:** Ephraim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 31:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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, heart, LORD), 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:854
# text = For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advcl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	yearneth	yearn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
28	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of Ephraim | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remember** | present · do-support | I | Ephraim |  |  | still | earnestly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **yearn** | present | My heart |  |  |  |  | for Ephraim; therefore *property* | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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הֲבֵן֩ יַקִּ֨יר לִ֜י אֶפְרַ֗יִם אִ֚ם יֶ֣לֶד שַׁעֲשֻׁעִ֔ים כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֤י דַבְּרִי֙ בּ֔וֹ זָכֹ֥ר אֶזְכְּרֶ֖נּוּ ע֑וֹד עַל־כֵּ֗ן הָמ֤וּ מֵעַי֙ ל֔וֹ רַחֵ֥ם אֲ‍ֽרַחֲמֶ֖נּוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Jeremiah 31:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.852/)
2. [Is he a child that is dandled?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.853/)
3. **For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD.**

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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:854` 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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