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title: Jeremiah 12:10 (JPS 1917) — Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My port… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. Who acts: Many shepherds, shepherds. Jeremiah 12:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:10 · JPS 1917

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Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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**Who acts:** Many shepherds, shepherds · **What happens:** destroy, tread, make · **To what, where:** vineyard, portion, foot, pleasant portion

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This is Jeremiah 12:10 · 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 (Many shepherds, shepherds), 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:363
# text = Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	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	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | present · perfect | Many shepherds | My vineyard |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=Patient |
| 2 | **tread** | present · perfect | shepherds *= shepherd* | My portion |  | foot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location portion=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | shepherds *= shepherd* | My pleasant portion |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset portion=Product |

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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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רֹעִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ כַרְמִ֔י בֹּסְס֖וּ אֶת־חֶלְקָתִ֑י נָֽתְנ֛וּ אֶת־חֶלְקַ֥ת חֶמְדָּתִ֖י לְמִדְבַּ֥ר שְׁמָמָֽה׃

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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:363` 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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