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title: Jeremiah 2:16 (JPS 1917) — The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy h… · tree and pragmatics
description: The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head. Who acts: children. Jeremiah 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:16 · JPS 1917

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The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** feed, crown · **To what, where:** head

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This is Jeremiah 2:16 · 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 (children), 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:37
# text = The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Noph	Noph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Tahpanhes	Tahpanhes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | the children of Noph and Tahpanhes |  |  |  |  | upon the crown of thy head | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crown** |  |  | thy head |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס יִרְע֖וּךְ קָדְקֹֽד׃

[Jeremiah 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/)

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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:37` 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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