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title: Jeremiah 2:29 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore will ye contend with Me? · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore will ye contend with Me? Who acts: ye. Jeremiah 2:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Wherefore will ye contend with Me?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** contend

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This is Jeremiah 2:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (ye), 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:54
# text = Wherefore will ye contend with Me?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **contend** | future | ye |  |  |  |  | with Me; wherefore *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 2:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.29/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Wherefore will ye contend with Me?**
2. [Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.55/)

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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:54` 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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