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title: Jeremiah 31:3 (JPS 1917) — 'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with affection have I drawn thee. Who acts: LORD, I. Jeremiah 31:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:3 · JPS 1917

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'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with affection have I drawn thee.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** appear, love, draw · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Jeremiah 31:3 · 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 (LORD, I), 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:835
# text = 'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with affection have I drawn thee.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	afar	afar	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with a everlasting love | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 3 | **draw** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with affection; therefore *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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מֵרָח֕וֹק יְהוָ֖ה נִרְאָ֣ה לִ֑י וְאַהֲבַ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ עַל־כֵּ֖ן מְשַׁכְתִּ֥יךְ חָֽסֶד׃

[Jeremiah 31:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.3/)

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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:835` 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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