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title: Jeremiah 12:5 (JPS 1917) — And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do… · tree and pragmatics
description: And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan? Who acts: thou. 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 2 of 2

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And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** land, thickets

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This is Jeremiah 12:5 · 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 (thou), 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:356
# text = And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | thou |  |  | a land of peace |  | secure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | future | thou |  |  | the thickets of the Jordan |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.355/)
2. **And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan?**

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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:356` 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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