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title: Jeremiah 4:2 (JPS 1917) — And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory. Who acts: LORD, nations. Jeremiah 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 4:2 · JPS 1917

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And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory.

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**Who acts:** LORD, nations · **What happens:** swear, live, bless, glory · **To what, where:** truth, nations

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This is Jeremiah 4:2 · 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 (LORD, nations), 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:99
# text = And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	glory	glory	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **swear** | future |  |  |  | truth |  | in justice and righteousness | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bless** | shall | the nations | nations *= nation* |  |  | then | by LORD | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **glory** | shall | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  | in LORD | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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וְנִשְׁבַּ֙עְתָּ֙ חַי־יְהוָ֔ה בֶּאֱמֶ֖ת בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט וּבִצְדָקָ֑ה וְהִתְבָּ֥רְכוּ ב֛וֹ גּוֹיִ֖ם וּב֥וֹ יִתְהַלָּֽלוּ׃ס

[Jeremiah 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.2/)

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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:99` 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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