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title: Jeremiah 5:7 (JPS 1917) — The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had… · tree and pragmatics
description: The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses. Who acts: children, I. Jeremiah 5:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 5:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

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**Who acts:** children, I · **What happens:** forsake, swear, feed, commit, assemble · **To what, where:** Me, children, full, adultery, troops

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This is Jeremiah 5:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (children, I), 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:143
# text = The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	29	obl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	harlots	harlot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	'	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | present · perfect | the children | Me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | participle | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by no gods | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feed** | past · perfect | I | children *= child* | the full |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to full=Recipient |
| 4 | **commit** | past | children *= child* | adultery |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 5 | **assemble** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  | troops |  | at the harlots's houses | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=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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אֵ֤י לָזֹאת֙ אֶֽסְלַֽח־לָ֔ךְבָּנַ֣יִךְ עֲזָב֔וּנִי וַיִּשָּׁבְע֖וּ בְּלֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וָאַשְׂבִּ֤עַ אוֹתָם֙ וַיִּנְאָ֔פוּ וּבֵ֥ית זוֹנָ֖ה יִתְגֹּדָֽדוּ׃

[Jeremiah 5:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wherefore should I pardon thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.142/)
2. **The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.**

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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:143` 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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