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title: Jeremiah 11:16 (JPS 1917) — The LORD called thy name a leafy olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit;… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD called thy name a leafy olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit; with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. Who acts: LORD, thy, great tumult. Jeremiah 11:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 11:16 · JPS 1917

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The LORD called thy name a leafy olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit; with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

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**Who acts:** LORD, thy, great tumult · **What happens:** call, kindle, break, name, noise · **To what, where:** name, fire, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 11:16 · JPS 1917 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 (LORD, thy, great tumult), 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:341
# text = The LORD called thy name a leafy olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit; with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD | thy name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **kindle** | present · perfect | LORD | fire |  |  |  | with the noise of a great tumult; upon fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fire=Patient with noise=Instrument |
| 3 | **break** | present · passive |  | the branches of fire |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **noise** |  | a great tumult |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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זַ֤יִת רַֽעֲנָן֙ יְפֵ֣ה פְרִי־תֹ֔אַר קָרָ֥א יְהוָ֖ה שְׁמֵ֑ךְ לְק֣וֹל ׀ הֲמוּלָּ֣ה גְדֹלָ֗ה הִצִּ֥ית אֵשׁ֙ עָלֶ֔יהָ וְרָע֖וּ דָּלִיּוֹתָֽיו׃

[Jeremiah 11:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.11.16/)

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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:341` 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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