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title: Jeremiah 10:5 (JPS 1917) — They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they… · tree and pragmatics
description: They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Who acts: customs. Jeremiah 10:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

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**Who acts:** customs · **What happens:** be, not speak, bear, not go · **To what, where:** garden, customs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 10:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (customs), 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:301
# text = They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	needs	need	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | present | customs *= custom* |  |  | a garden of cucumbers |  | like a pillar | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present | customs *= custom* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | must · passive |  | customs *= custom* |  |  |  | need *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **go** | can | customs *= custom* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 10:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.**
2. [Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.302/)

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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:301` 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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