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title: Jeremiah 48:9 (JPS 1917) — Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. Who acts: you, plain, cities. Jeremiah 48:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:9 · JPS 1917

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Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

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**Who acts:** you, plain, cities · **What happens:** give, fly, get away, become, dwell · **To what, where:** wings, desolation

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This is Jeremiah 48:9 · 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, plain, cities), 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:1243
# text = Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | wings |  |  |  | unto Moab | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | must | plain |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get away** | infinitive | plain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | shall | plain's cities | a desolation |  |  |  | without any | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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תְּנוּ־צִ֣יץ לְמוֹאָ֔ב כִּ֥י נָצֹ֖א תֵּצֵ֑א וְעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ינָה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בָּהֵֽן׃

[Jeremiah 48:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.9/)

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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:1243` 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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