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title: Jeremiah 24:2 (JPS 1917) — One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; an… · tree and pragmatics
description: One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Who acts: One basket, figs, other basket, baskets. Jeremiah 24:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 24:2 · JPS 1917

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One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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**Who acts:** One basket, figs, other basket, baskets · **What happens:** have, be, not eat · **To what, where:** good figs, bad figs

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This is Jeremiah 24:2 · 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 (One basket, figs, other basket, baskets), 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:663
# text = One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | One basket | good figs |  |  |  | like the figs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the figs |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the other basket | bad figs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | could · passive |  | bad figs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | baskets *= basket* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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הַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ טֹב֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד כִּתְאֵנֵ֖י הַבַּכֻּר֑וֹת וְהַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ רָע֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תֵֽאָכַ֖לְנָה מֵרֹֽעַ׃ס

[Jeremiah 24:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.24.2/)

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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:663` 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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