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title: Jeremiah 35:9 (JPS 1917) — nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or… · tree and pragmatics
description: nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or field, or seed; Who acts: us. Jeremiah 35:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 35:9 · JPS 1917

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nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or field, or seed;

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**Who acts:** us · **What happens:** build, dwell, have · **To what, where:** houses, vineyard

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This is Jeremiah 35:9 · 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 (us), 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:977
# text = nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or field, or seed;
1	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | houses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | us | houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | vineyard or field or seed |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=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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וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י בְּנ֥וֹת בָּתִּ֖ים לְשִׁבְתֵּ֑נוּ וְכֶ֧רֶם וְשָׂדֶ֛ה וָזֶ֖רַע לֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶה־לָּֽנוּ׃

[Jeremiah 35:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.9/)

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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:977` 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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