--- title: Jeremiah 2:5 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus saith the LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me, and have walked after things of nought, and are become nought? Who acts: LORD, fathers. 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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 (LORD, fathers), 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:23 # text = Thus saith the LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me, and have walked after things of nought, and are become nought? 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ _ 7 unrighteousness unrighteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 19 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 nought nought NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 34 nought nought ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **find** | present · perfect | your fathers | what unrighteousness | | | | in Me | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unrighteousness=Topic | | 3 | **go** | present · passive | fathers *= father* | | | | | from Me; far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **walk** | present · perfect | fathers *= father* *not said here* | | | | after things of nought | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **become** | present · passive | fathers *= father* *not said here* | | | | | nought *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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} כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה מַה־מָּצְא֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֥ם בִּי֙ עָ֔וֶל כִּ֥י רָחֲק֖וּ מֵעָלָ֑י וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י הַהֶ֖בֶל וַיֶּהְבָּֽלוּ׃ [Jeremiah 2:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:23` 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 2:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.22/) - next →: [Jeremiah 2:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.24/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 2:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.5/)