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title: Jeremiah 2:21 (JPS 1917) — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me? Who acts: I. Jeremiah 2:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:21 · JPS 1917

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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** plant, turn · **To what, where:** noble vine, thee, thou, degenerate plant

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This is Jeremiah 2:21 · 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 (I), 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:43
# text = Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	degenerate	degenerate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **plant** | past · perfect | I | a noble vine | thee |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme vine=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | present · passive |  | thou |  | the degenerate plant of a strange vine | then | unto Me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into plant=Trajectory |

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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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וְאָֽנֹכִי֙ נְטַעְתִּ֣יךְ שֹׂרֵ֔ק כֻּלֹּ֖ה זֶ֣רַע אֱמֶ֑ת וְאֵיךְ֙ נֶהְפַּ֣כְתְּ לִ֔י סוּרֵ֖י הַגֶּ֥פֶן נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

[Jeremiah 2:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.21/)

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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:43` 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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