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title: Jeremiah 46:6 (JPS 1917) — The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north… · tree and pragmatics
description: The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. Who acts: swift, mighty man, spears. Jeremiah 46:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 46:6 · JPS 1917

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The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

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**Who acts:** swift, mighty man, spears · **What happens:** not flee away, escape, stumble, fall · **To what, where:** north

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This is Jeremiah 46:6 · 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 (swift, mighty man, spears), 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:1203
# text = The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Euphrates	Euphrates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **flee away** | can | the swift |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **escape** | infinitive | the mighty man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stumble** | present · perfect | spears *= spear* |  |  | the north by the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fall** | participle | spears *= spear* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אַל־יָנ֣וּס הַקַּ֔ל וְאַל־יִמָּלֵ֖ט הַגִּבּ֑וֹר צָפ֙וֹנָה֙ עַל־יַ֣ד נְהַר־פְּרָ֔ת כָּשְׁל֖וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃

[Jeremiah 46:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.6/)

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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:1203` 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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