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title: Jeremiah 36:3 (JPS 1917) — It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I pur… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 36:3 · JPS 1917

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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way, and I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.'

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**Who acts:** house, I, nations · **What happens:** be, hear, purpose, do, return, forgive · **To what, where:** word, evil, man, evil way, iniquity

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This is Jeremiah 36:3 · 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 (house, I, 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:990
# text = It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way, and I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.'
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | may |  | word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | future | the house of Judah | all evil |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
| 3 | **purpose** *speech: other* | present | I | all evil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto nations *= nation* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **return** | may | nations *= nation* | every man |  | Judah's evil way |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme from way=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **forgive** | may | I | nations's iniquity and nations's sin |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |

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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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אוּלַ֤י יִשְׁמְעוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית יְהוּדָ֔ה אֵ֚ת כָּל־הָ֣רָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י חֹשֵׁ֖ב לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָהֶ֑ם לְמַ֣עַן יָשׁ֗וּבוּ אִ֚ישׁ מִדַּרְכּ֣וֹ הָרָעָ֔ה וְסָלַחְתִּ֥י לַעֲוֺנָ֖ם וּלְחַטָּאתָֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 36:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.3/)

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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:990` of Mova's parse database.

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