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title: Jeremiah 6:3 (JPS 1917) — Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents ag… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand. Who acts: Shepherds, one. Jeremiah 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:3 · JPS 1917

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Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.

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**Who acts:** Shepherds, one · **What happens:** come, pitch, feed, be · **To what, where:** tents, one, hand

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This is Jeremiah 6:3 · 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 (Shepherds, one), 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:171
# text = Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
1	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pitch	pitch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Shepherds with Shepherds's flocks |  |  |  |  | unto Zion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pitch** | present | Shepherds *= shepherd* | Shepherds's tents |  |  |  | Zion *obl*; round *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | present | Shepherds *= shepherd* | every one |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | every one |  |  | hand |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |

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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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אֵלֶ֛יהָ יָבֹ֥אוּ רֹעִ֖ים וְעֶדְרֵיהֶ֑ם תָּקְע֨וּ עָלֶ֤יהָ אֹהָלִים֙ סָבִ֔יב רָע֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ אֶת־יָדֽוֹ׃

[Jeremiah 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.3/)

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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:171` 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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