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title: Jeremiah 47:6 (JPS 1917) — O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? · tree and pragmatics
description: O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Who acts: Baldness, thou. Jeremiah 47:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 47:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?

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**Who acts:** Baldness, thou · **What happens:** be

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This is Jeremiah 47:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Baldness, thou), 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:1232
# text = O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
13	ere	ere	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | Baldness |  |  |  |  | sword  thou of the LORD *vocative*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

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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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ה֗וֹי חֶ֚רֶב לַֽיהוָ֔ה עַד־אָ֖נָה לֹ֣א תִשְׁקֹ֑טִי הֵאָֽסְפִי֙ אַל־תַּעְרֵ֔ךְ הֵרָגְעִ֖י וָדֹֽמִּי׃

[Jeremiah 47:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?**
2. [Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1233/)

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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:1232` 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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