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title: Jeremiah 5:27 (JPS 1917) — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; ther… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich; Who acts: cage, houses. Jeremiah 5:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 5:27 · JPS 1917

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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;

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**Who acts:** cage, houses · **What happens:** be, become, wax

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This is Jeremiah 5:27 · 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 (cage, houses), 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:164
# text = As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	waxen	wax	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a cage |  |  |  |  | of birds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | birds's houses |  |  |  |  | of deceit; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present · passive | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | great, therefore *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wax** | participle | houses *= house* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּכְלוּב֙ מָ֣לֵא ע֔וֹף כֵּ֥ן בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם מְלֵאִ֣ים מִרְמָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֥ן גָּדְל֖וּ וַֽיַּעֲשִֽׁירוּ׃

[Jeremiah 5:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.27/)

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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:164` 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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