--- title: Jeremiah 2:7 (JPS 1917) — And I brought you into a land of fruitful fields, to eat the fruit t… · tree and pragmatics description: And I brought you into a land of fruitful fields, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination. Who acts: I, ye. 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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 (I, ye), 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:25 # text = And I brought you into a land of fruitful fields, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 fruitful fruitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 24 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 defiled defile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 heritage heritage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 abomination abomination NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | I | you | | a land of fruitful fields | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into land=Destination | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the fruit and the good | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 3 | **enter** | past | ye | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **defile** | past | ye | My land | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past | ye *not said here* | My heritage | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heritage=Product | 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} וָאָבִ֤יא אֶתְכֶם֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ הַכַּרְמֶ֔ל לֶאֱכֹ֥ל פִּרְיָ֖הּ וְטוּבָ֑הּ וַתָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ וַתְּטַמְּא֣וּ אֶת־אַרְצִ֔י וְנַחֲלָתִ֥י שַׂמְתֶּ֖ם לְתוֹעֵבָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:25` 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 2:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.24/) - next →: [Jeremiah 2:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.26/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 2:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.7/)