--- title: Jeremiah 2:37 (JPS 1917) — From him also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head; for… · tree and pragmatics description: From him also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head; for the LORD hath rejected them in whom thou didst trust, and thou shalt not prosper in them. Who acts: thou, LORD. 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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, LORD), 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:67 # text = From him also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head; for the LORD hath rejected them in whom thou didst trust, and thou shalt not prosper in them. 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nsubj _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 forth forth ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 rejected reject VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 30 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 prosper prosper VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | shall | thou | | | | | from Asshur; with thy hands upon thy head; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **reject** | present · perfect | the LORD | hands *= hand* | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **trust** | past · do-support | thou | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **prosper** | shall | thou | | | | | in hands *= hand* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location | 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} גַּ֣ם מֵאֵ֥ת זֶה֙ תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְיָדַ֖יִךְ עַל־רֹאשֵׁ֑ךְ כִּֽי־מָאַ֤ס יְהֹוָה֙ בְּמִבְטַחַ֔יִךְ וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחִי לָהֶֽם׃ [Jeremiah 2:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.37/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:67` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 2:36 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.66/) - next →: [Jeremiah 3:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.68/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 2:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.37/)