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title: Jeremiah 3:22 (JPS 1917) — Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God. Who acts: you, I, we, Thou. Jeremiah 3:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 3:22 · JPS 1917

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Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.

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**Who acts:** you, I, we, Thou · **What happens:** return, backslide, heal, come, be · **To what, where:** backslidings, LORD

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This is Jeremiah 3:22 · 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 (you, I, we, 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:94
# text = Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.
1	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	vocative	_	_
4	backsliding	backslide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	backslidings	backsliding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
15	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
27	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ye *vocative*; backsliding children *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **backslide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heal** | future | I | your backslidings |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent backsliding=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | we |  |  | here |  | unto Thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Thou | the LORD |  |  |  |  | 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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שׁ֚וּבוּ בָּנִ֣ים שׁוֹבָבִ֔ים אֶרְפָּ֖ה מְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם הִנְנוּ֙ אָתָ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ כִּ֥י אַתָּ֖ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

[Jeremiah 3:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.22/)

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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:94` 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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