--- title: Jeremiah 46:3 (JPS 1917) — Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. · tree and pragmatics description: Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. Who acts: you. Jeremiah 46:3 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.1200/) [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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/46/) / [46:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.3/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 46:3 · JPS 1917 Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, draw · **To what, where:** buckler, battle This is Jeremiah 46:3 · 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), 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:1200 # text = Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 1 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 buckler buckler NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 draw draw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 near near ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | buckler and shield | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset buckler=Product | | 2 | **draw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | battle | | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to battle=Destination | 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} עִרְכ֤וּ מָגֵן֙ וְצִנָּ֔ה וּגְשׁ֖וּ לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 46:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1200` 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 46:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1199/) - next →: [Jeremiah 46:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1201/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 46:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.3/)