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title: Jeremiah 12:5 (JPS 1917) — 'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? Who acts: thou, footmen. Jeremiah 12:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?

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**Who acts:** thou, footmen · **What happens:** run, weary, contend · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Jeremiah 12:5 · 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 (thou, footmen), 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:355
# text = 'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | with the footmen | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with footman=Material |
| 2 | **weary** | present · perfect | footmen *= footman* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |
| 3 | **contend** | can | thou |  |  |  | then | with horses | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-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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כִּ֣י אֶת־רַגְלִ֥ים ׀ רַ֙צְתָּה֙ וַיַּלְא֔וּךָ וְאֵ֥יךְ תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖ה אֶת־הַסּוּסִ֑ים וּבְאֶ֤רֶץ שָׁלוֹם֙ אַתָּ֣ה בוֹטֵ֔חַ וְאֵ֥יךְ תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בִּגְא֥וֹן הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

[Jeremiah 12:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?**
2. [And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.356/)

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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:355` 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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