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title: Jeremiah 2:33 (JPS 1917) — How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! · tree and pragmatics
description: How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! Who acts: thou. Jeremiah 2:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** trim, seek · **To what, where:** way, love

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This is Jeremiah 2:33 · 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 (thou), 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:61
# text = How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	trimmest	trim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trim** | present | thou | thy way |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | love |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=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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מַה־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה לָכֵן֙ גַּ֣ם אֶת־הָרָע֔וֹת לִמַּ֖דְתְּ אֶת־דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃

[Jeremiah 2:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.33/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!**
2. [Therefore — even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.62/)

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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:61` 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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