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title: Jeremiah 2:11 (JPS 1917) — But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit. · tree and pragmatics
description: But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit. Who acts: people, nation. Jeremiah 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit.

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**Who acts:** people, nation · **What happens:** change, not profit, glory · **To what, where:** glory

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This is Jeremiah 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (people, nation), 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:30
# text = But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **change** | present · perfect | My people | nation's glory |  |  |  | for that | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent glory=Theme for that=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **profit** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **glory** |  | nation |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הַהֵימִ֥יר גּוֹי֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעַמִּ֛י הֵמִ֥יר כְּבוֹד֖וֹ בְּל֥וֹא יוֹעִֽיל׃

[Jeremiah 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.29/)
2. **But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit.**

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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:30` 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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