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title: Jeremiah 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? Jeremiah 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** heritage

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This is Jeremiah 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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:360
# text = Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	speckled	speckle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **is a** | present |  | My heritage |  |  |  | unto Me; as a speckled bird of prey | 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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הַעַ֨יִט צָב֤וּעַ נַחֲלָתִי֙ לִ֔י הַעַ֖יִט סָבִ֣יב עָלֶ֑יהָ לְכ֗וּ אִסְפ֛וּ כָּל־חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה הֵתָ֥יוּ לְאָכְלָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?**
2. [Are the birds of prey against her round about?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.361/)
3. [Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.362/)

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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:360` 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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