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title: Jeremiah 2:30 (JPS 1917) — In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction;… · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. Who acts: I, children, sword. Jeremiah 2:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:30 · JPS 1917

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In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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**Who acts:** I, children, sword · **What happens:** smite, receive, devour · **To what, where:** children, vain, correction, prophets

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This is Jeremiah 2:30 · 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, children, sword), 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:56
# text = In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	destroying	destroy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | present · perfect | I | your children |  | vain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 2 | **receive** | past | children *= child* | no correction |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correction=Theme |
| 3 | **devour** | present · perfect | your sword | your prophets |  |  |  | like a destroying lion | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=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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לַשָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר לֹ֣א לָקָ֑חוּ אָכְלָ֧ה חַרְבְּכֶ֛ם נְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֖ם כְּאַרְיֵ֥ה מַשְׁחִֽית׃

[Jeremiah 2:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.30/)

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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:56` 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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