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title: Jeremiah 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour. · tree and pragmatics
description: Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour. Who acts: ye. 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 3 of 3

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Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** come, assemble, bring, devour · **To what, where:** beasts

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This is Jeremiah 12:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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: who acts (ye), 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:362
# text = Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **assemble** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | all beasts of the field |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **devour** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.360/)
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.**

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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:362` 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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