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title: Jeremiah 2:25 (JPS 1917) — Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but… · tree and pragmatics
description: Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.' Who acts: you, foot, thou, hope. Jeremiah 2:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:25 · JPS 1917

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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'

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**Who acts:** you, foot, thou, hope, I · **What happens:** withhold, be, say, love, go · **To what, where:** foot, strangers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 2:25 · 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 (you, foot, thou, hope), 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:49
# text = Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'
1	Withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	unshod	unshod	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saidst	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	29	discourse	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withhold** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy foot and thy throat from thirst |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | thy foot and thy throat from thirst *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unshod *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | present | no hope |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | present · perfect | I | strangers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  | after strangers *= stranger* |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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מִנְעִ֤י רַגְלֵךְ֙ מִיָּחֵ֔ף וּגְרוֹנֵ֖ךְ מִצִּמְאָ֑ה וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י נוֹאָ֔שׁ ל֕וֹא כִּֽי־אָהַ֥בְתִּי זָרִ֖ים וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֥ם אֵלֵֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 2:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.25/)

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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:49` 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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