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title: Jeremiah 46:17 (JPS 1917) — They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let… · tree and pragmatics
description: They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.' Who acts: Noph, king. Jeremiah 46:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 46:17 · JPS 1917

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They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.'

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**Who acts:** Noph, king · **What happens:** cry, be, let, appoint, pass by · **To what, where:** noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 46:17 · 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 (Noph, king), 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:1215
# text = They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.'
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
6	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	but	but	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Noph |  |  | there |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | king  Pharaoh of Egypt | a noise |  |  |  | but *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | present | king |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass by** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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קָרְא֖וּ שָׁ֑ם פַּרְעֹ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ שָׁא֔וֹן הֶעֱבִ֖יר הַמּוֹעֵֽד׃

[Jeremiah 46:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.17/)

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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:1215` 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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