--- title: Jeremiah 35:7 (JPS 1917) — neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor… · tree and pragmatics description: neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn. Who acts: ye. Jeremiah 35:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.975/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/35/) / [35:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.7/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 35:7 · JPS 1917 neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn. **Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** build, sow, have, dwell, live, sojourn · **To what, where:** house, seed, any, tents, land This is Jeremiah 35:7 · 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 (ye), 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:975 # text = neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn. 1 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 4 cc:preconj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 8 cc _ _ 8 sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc _ _ 12 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 vineyard vineyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 16 cc _ _ 16 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sojourn sojourn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | shall | ye | house nor plant vineyard | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | | 2 | **sow** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | seed | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **have** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | any | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | | 4 | **dwell** | shall | ye | | | tents | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | | 5 | **live** | may | ye | | | the land | day | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | | 6 | **sojourn** | present | ye | | | | | wherein *property* | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | 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} וּבַ֣יִת לֹֽא־תִבְנ֗וּ וְזֶ֤רַע לֹֽא־תִזְרָ֙עוּ֙ וְכֶ֣רֶם לֹֽא־תִטָּ֔עוּ וְלֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶ֖ה לָכֶ֑ם כִּ֠י בָּאֳהָלִ֤ים תֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ כָּל־יְמֵיכֶ֔ם לְמַ֨עַן תִּֽחְי֜וּ יָמִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הָאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֖ם גָּרִ֥ים שָֽׁם׃ [Jeremiah 35:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:975` 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 35:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.974/) - next →: [Jeremiah 35:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.976/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 35:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.7/)