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title: Jeremiah 31:36 (JPS 1917) — If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the… · tree and pragmatics
description: If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever. Who acts: ordinances, LORD, seed. Jeremiah 31:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:36 · JPS 1917

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If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.

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**Who acts:** ordinances, LORD, seed · **What happens:** depart, say, cease, be · **To what, where:** nation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 31:36 · 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 (ordinances, LORD, seed), 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:871
# text = If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this ordinances |  |  |  | before Me |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cease** | shall | the seed of Israel |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund | the seed of Israel *not said here* | a nation |  |  | before Me |  | 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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אִם־יָמֻ֜שׁוּ הַחֻקִּ֥ים הָאֵ֛לֶּה מִלְּפָנַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה גַּם֩ זֶ֨רַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל יִשְׁבְּת֗וּ מִֽהְי֥וֹת גּ֛וֹי לְפָנַ֖י כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ס

[Jeremiah 31:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.36/)

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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:871` 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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