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title: Jeremiah 31:22 (JPS 1917) — How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter? · tree and pragmatics
description: How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter? Who acts: thou. Jeremiah 31:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** turn away, daughter

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This is Jeremiah 31:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (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:856
# text = How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	coyly	coyly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	backsliding	backslide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | future | thou |  |  |  |  | away, coyly, long *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **daughter** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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עַד־מָתַי֙ תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה כִּֽי־בָרָ֨א יְהוָ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ נְקֵבָ֖ה תְּס֥וֹבֵֽב גָּֽבֶר׃ס

[Jeremiah 31:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter?**
2. [For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall court a man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.857/)

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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:856` 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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