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title: Jeremiah 12:2 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit; Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. Who acts: Thou, they. Jeremiah 12:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:2 · JPS 1917

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Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit; Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

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**Who acts:** Thou, they · **What happens:** plant, take, grow, bring, be · **To what, where:** them, root, fruit, mouth, reins

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This is Jeremiah 12:2 · 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 (Thou, they), 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:351
# text = Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit; Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | present · perfect | Thou | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | they | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | present | they | fruit |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  | their mouth |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Thou *not said here* |  |  | their reins |  |  | tree rules |

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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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נְטַעְתָּם֙ גַּם־שֹׁרָ֔שׁוּ יֵלְכ֖וּ גַּם־עָ֣שׂוּ פֶ֑רִי קָר֤וֹב אַתָּה֙ בְּפִיהֶ֔ם וְרָח֖וֹק מִכִּלְיוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.2/)

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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:351` 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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