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title: Jeremiah 2:31 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'? Who acts: people, We. Jeremiah 2:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?

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**Who acts:** people, We · **What happens:** say, roam, come · **To what, where:** large · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 2:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (people, We), 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:58
# text = Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obl	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | My people |  |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **roam** | present | We |  |  | large |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at large=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | future | we |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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הַדּ֗וֹר אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֔ה הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר הָיִ֙יתִי֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֛ם אֶ֥רֶץ מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה מַדּ֜וּעַ אָמְר֤וּ עַמִּי֙ רַ֔דְנוּ לֽוֹא־נָב֥וֹא ע֖וֹד אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

[Jeremiah 2:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.31/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [O generation, see ye the word of the LORD: have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.57/)
2. **Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?**

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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:58` 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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