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title: Jeremiah 46:22 (JPS 1917) — The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. Who acts: sound, mercenaries. Jeremiah 46:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 46:22 · JPS 1917

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The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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**Who acts:** sound, mercenaries · **What happens:** go, march, come

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This is Jeremiah 46:22 · 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 (sound, mercenaries), 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:1220
# text = The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hewers	hewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | the sound |  |  |  |  | like the serpent; thereof *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **march** | present | mercenaries *= mercenary* |  |  |  |  | with a army | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | mercenaries *= mercenary* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against sound; with axes; as hewers of wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=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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קוֹלָ֖הּ כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ יֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־בְחַ֣יִל יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְקַרְדֻּמּוֹת֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 46:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/)

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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:1220` 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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