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title: Jeremiah 2:36 (JPS 1917) — How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way? · tree and pragmatics
description: How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way? Who acts: thou. Jeremiah 2:36 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 2:36 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** cheapen, change · **To what, where:** thyself, way

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This is Jeremiah 2:36 · 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:65
# text = How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cheapen	cheapen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheapen** | present · do-support | thou | thyself |  |  |  | greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy way |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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מַה־תֵּזְלִ֥י מְאֹ֖ד לְשַׁנּ֣וֹת אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֑ךְ גַּ֤ם מִמִּצְרַ֙יִם֙ תֵּב֔וֹשִׁי כַּאֲשֶׁר־בֹּ֖שְׁתְּ מֵאַשּֽׁוּר׃

[Jeremiah 2:36: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.36/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way?**
2. [Thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Asshur.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.66/)

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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:65` 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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