--- title: Jeremiah 12:11 (JPS 1917) — They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate;… · tree and pragmatics description: They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. Who acts: shepherds, portion, man. Jeremiah 12:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.364/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/12/) / [12:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.11/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 12:11 · JPS 1917 They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. **Who acts:** shepherds, portion, man · **What happens:** make, mourn, be, lay · **To what, where:** portion, whole land This is Jeremiah 12:11 · 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 (shepherds, portion, man), 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:364 # text = They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 desolation desolation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mourneth mourn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 14 desolate desolate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 21 desolate desolate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 layeth lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect | shepherds *= shepherd* | portion | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 2 | **mourn** | present | portion | | | | | unto Me | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | gerund | portion *not said here* | | | | | desolate *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | | the whole land | | | | desolate *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **lay** | present | no man | portion | | | | to heart | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | 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} שָׂמָהּ֙ לִשְׁמָמָ֔ה אָבְלָ֥ה עָלַ֖י שְׁמֵמָ֑ה נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙ כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין אִ֖ישׁ שָׂ֥ם עַל־לֵֽב׃ [Jeremiah 12:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:364` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 12:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.363/) - next →: [Jeremiah 12:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.365/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 12:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.11/)