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title: Jeremiah 12:13 (JPS 1917) — They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselv… · tree and pragmatics
description: They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, they profit not; be ye then ashamed of your increase, because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Who acts: spoilers, ye, LORD. Jeremiah 12:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 12:13 · JPS 1917

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They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, they profit not; be ye then ashamed of your increase, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** spoilers, ye, LORD · **What happens:** sow, reap, put, not profit, be, anger · **To what, where:** wheat, thorns, spoilers

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This is Jeremiah 12:13 · 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 (spoilers, ye, LORD), 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:366
# text = They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, they profit not; be ye then ashamed of your increase, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	reaped	reap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	profit	profit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sow** | present · perfect | spoilers *= spoiler* | wheat |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme |
| 2 | **reap** | present · perfect | spoilers *= spoiler* *not said here* | thorns |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | present · perfect | spoilers *= spoiler* | spoilers *= spoiler* |  |  |  | to pain | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Goal |
| 4 | **not** **profit** | present | spoilers *= spoiler* |  |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  | then | of your increase; because the fierce anger of the LORD; ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **anger** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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זָרְע֤וּ חִטִּים֙ וְקֹצִ֣ים קָצָ֔רוּ נֶחְל֖וּ לֹ֣א יוֹעִ֑לוּ וּבֹ֙שׁוּ֙ מִתְּבוּאֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם מֵחֲר֖וֹן אַף־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Jeremiah 12:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.13/)

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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:366` 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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