--- title: Jeremiah 2:3 (JPS 1917) — Israel is the LORD'S hallowed portion, His first-fruits of the incre… · tree and pragmatics description: Israel is the LORD'S hallowed portion, His first-fruits of the increase; all that devour him shall be held guilty, evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. Who acts: Israel, evil, LORD. 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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 (Israel, evil, 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:21 # text = Israel is the LORD'S hallowed portion, His first-fruits of the increase; all that devour him shall be held guilty, evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. 1 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 'S 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 hallowed hallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 increase increase NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 devour devour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 24 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Israel | the LORD's hallowed portion | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **devour** | present | | LORD | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **hold** | shall · passive | | all | | | | guilty *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **come** | shall | evil | | | | | upon fruits *= fruit* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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} קֹ֤דֶשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לַיהוָ֔ה רֵאשִׁ֖ית תְּבוּאָתֹ֑הכָּל־אֹכְלָ֣יו יֶאְשָׁ֔מוּ רָעָ֛ה תָּבֹ֥א אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃פ [Jeremiah 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:21` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 2:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.20/) - next →: [Jeremiah 2:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.22/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.3/)