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title: Jeremiah 4:17 (JPS 1917) — As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she… · tree and pragmatics
description: As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD. Who acts: keepers, Jerusalem, LORD. Jeremiah 4:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 4:17 · JPS 1917

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As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** keepers, Jerusalem, LORD · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 4:17 · 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 (keepers, Jerusalem, LORD), 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:115
# text = As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | keepers *= keeper* |  |  |  |  | against Jerusalem; about, round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | against Me; rebellious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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כְּשֹׁמְרֵ֣י שָׂדַ֔י הָי֥וּ עָלֶ֖יהָ מִסָּבִ֑יב כִּי־אֹתִ֥י מָרָ֖תָה נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 4:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.17/)

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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:115` 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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