--- title: Jeremiah 5:17 (JPS 1917) — And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up… · tree and pragmatics description: And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall batter thy fortified cities, wherein thou trusteth, with the sword. Who acts: houses, thou. 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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 (houses, 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:153 # text = And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall batter thy fortified cities, wherein thou trusteth, with the sword. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 vines vine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 batter batter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 48 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 fortified fortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Rel 54 advmod _ _ 53 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 54 nsubj _ _ 54 trusteth trust VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 with with ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat up** | shall | houses *= house* | thy harvest | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Patient | | 2 | **eat up** | shall | houses *= house* | thy bread | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat up** | shall | houses *= house* | thy flocks and thy herds | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient | | 4 | **eat up** | shall | houses *= house* | thy vines and thy fig trees | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vine=Patient | | 5 | **batter** | shall | houses *= house* | thy fortified cities | | | | with the sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent city=Patient with sword=Instrument | | 6 | **fortify** | participle | | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **trust** | present | thou | | | | | wherein *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} וְאָכַ֨ל קְצִֽירְךָ֜ וְלַחְמֶ֗ךָ יֹאכְלוּ֙ בָּנֶ֣יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יךָ יֹאכַ֤ל צֹאנְךָ֙ וּבְקָרֶ֔ךָ יֹאכַ֥ל גַּפְנְךָ֖ וּתְאֵנָתֶ֑ךָ יְרֹשֵׁ֞שׁ עָרֵ֣י מִבְצָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֛ה בּוֹטֵ֥חַ בָּהֵ֖נָּה בֶּחָֽרֶב׃ [Jeremiah 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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