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title: Jeremiah 4:8 (JPS 1917) — For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce an… · tree and pragmatics
description: For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. Who acts: you, LORD. Jeremiah 4:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 4:8 · JPS 1917

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For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD · **What happens:** gird, lament, wail, not turn back, anger · **To what, where:** you, fierce anger

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This is Jeremiah 4:8 · 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, LORD), 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:105
# text = For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	gird	gird	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lament	lament	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wail	wail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gird** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | with sackcloth | tree rules |
| 2 | **lament** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wail** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **turn back** | present · passive |  | the fierce anger of the LORD |  |  |  | from us | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from we=Source |
| 5 | **anger** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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עַל־זֹ֛את חִגְר֥וּ שַׂקִּ֖ים סִפְד֣וּ וְהֵילִ֑ילוּ כִּ֥י לֹא־שָׁ֛ב חֲר֥וֹן אַף־יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃פ

[Jeremiah 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.8/)

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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:105` 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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