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title: Jeremiah 48:41 — The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. Who acts: heart. Jeremiah 48:41 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:41 יִרְמְיָהוּ

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** take, seize, be · **To what, where:** cities, strongholds

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This is Jeremiah 48:41 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — heart — and what happens in the verse to cities, strongholds, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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נִלְכְּדָה֙ הַקְּרִיּ֔וֹת וְהַמְּצָד֖וֹת נִתְפָּ֑שָׂה וְֽ֠הָיָה לֵ֞ב גִּבּוֹרֵ֤י מוֹאָב֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא כְּלֵ֖ב אִשָּׁ֥ה מְצֵרָֽה׃

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[The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1277/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:JER:1173
# text = נִלְכְּדָה֙ הַקְּרִיּ֔וֹת וְהַמְּצָד֖וֹת נִתְפָּ֑שָׂה וְֽ֠הָיָה לֵ֞ב גִּבּוֹרֵ֤י מוֹאָב֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא כְּלֵ֖ב אִשָּׁ֥ה מְצֵרָֽה׃
# verse = JER.48.41
1	נִלְכְּדָה֙	לָכַד	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.will.be.captured|Ref=JER_48:41!1|MId=o240480410011|Strong=3920|Frame=A1:240480410022;|Type=qatal
2-3	הַקְּרִיּ֔וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	3	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JER_48:41!2|MId=o240480410021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
3	קְּרִיּ֔וֹת	קִרְיָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	Gloss=Kerioth|Ref=JER_48:41!2|MId=o240480410022|Strong=7152
4-6	וְהַמְּצָד֖וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	7	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JER_48:41!3|MId=o240480410031|Strong=2050b
5	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JER_48:41!3|MId=o240480410032|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	מְּצָד֖וֹת	מְצָד	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	Gloss=strongholds|Ref=JER_48:41!3|MId=o240480410033|Strong=4679
7	נִתְפָּ֑שָׂה	תָּפַשׂ	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=it.will.be.seized|Ref=JER_48:41!4|MId=o240480410041|Strong=8610|Frame=A1:240480410033;|Type=qatal
8-9	וְֽ֠הָיָה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וְֽ֠	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JER_48:41!5|MId=o240480410051|Strong=2050b
9	הָיָה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	15	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=JER_48:41!5|MId=o240480410052|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:240480410061;|Type=weqatal
10	לֵ֞ב	לֵב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.heart|Ref=JER_48:41!6|MId=o240480410061|Strong=3820
11	גִּבּוֹרֵ֤י	גִּבּוֹר	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.warriors|Ref=JER_48:41!7|MId=o240480410071|Strong=1368|Type=adjective
12	מוֹאָב֙	מוֹאָב	PROPN	_	_	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Moab|Ref=JER_48:41!8|MId=o240480410081|Strong=4124
13-15	בַּיּ֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=JER_48:41!9|MId=o240480410091|Strong=0871a
14	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	15	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=JER_48:41!9|MId=o240480410091ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
15	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Gloss=day|Ref=JER_48:41!9|MId=o240480410092|Strong=3117
16-17	הַה֔וּא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	17	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JER_48:41!10|MId=o240480410101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
17	ה֔וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	det	_	Gloss=that|Ref=JER_48:41!10|MId=o240480410102|Strong=1931|Type=personal
18-19	כְּלֵ֖ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=like.[the]|Ref=JER_48:41!11|MId=o240480410111|Strong=3509a
19	לֵ֖ב	לֵב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=heart|Ref=JER_48:41!11|MId=o240480410112|Strong=3820
20	אִשָּׁ֥ה	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.a.woman|Ref=JER_48:41!12|MId=o240480410121|Strong=0802
21	מְצֵרָֽה	צָרַר	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Gloss=[who.is].in.labor|Ref=JER_48:41!13|MId=o240480410131|Strong=6887|Frame=A0:240480410121;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=JER_48:41!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נִלְכְּדָה *it will be captured* | qatal · niphal |  | קְּרִיּוֹת *Kerioth* |  |  |
| נִתְפָּשָׂה *it will be seized* | qatal · niphal |  | מְּצָדוֹת *strongholds* |  |  |
| הָיָה *it will be* | weqatal · qal | לֵב *the heart* |  |  |  |
| מְצֵרָֽה *\[who is\] in labor* | participle active · hiphil | אִשָּׁה *of a woman* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וְתִתְכְּבֵישׁ כְּרַכָּא וּמְצָדָתָא יִתְאַחְדָן וִיהֵי לֵב גִבָּרֵיהוֹן דְמוֹאֲבָאֵי בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא כְּלֵב אִתְּתָא דְעָקָא לָהּ בְּחֶבְלָהָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [The cities are taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1277/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:JER:1173`.

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