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title: Jeremiah 4:6 (JPS 1917) — Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. Who acts: you, I. Jeremiah 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 4:6 · JPS 1917

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Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** set up, put, not stay, bring · **To what, where:** standard, yourselves, covert, evil, north

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This is Jeremiah 4:6 · 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 (you, 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:103
# text = Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	covert	covert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | imperative | you *not said here* | a standard |  |  |  | toward Zion | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient standard=Result |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourselves |  | covert |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme under covert=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | future | I | evil and a great destruction |  | the north |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent evil=Theme from north=Initial\_Location |

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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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שְׂאוּ־נֵ֣ס צִיּ֔וֹנָה הָעִ֖יזוּ אַֽל־תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ כִּ֣י רָעָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא מִצָּפ֖וֹן וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּדֽוֹל׃

[Jeremiah 4:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.6/)

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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:103` 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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