--- title: Jeremiah 48:17 (JPS 1917) — Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him, and all ye that know hi… · tree and pragmatics description: Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him, and all ye that know his name; say: 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!' Who acts: you, affliction. 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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, affliction), 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:1251 # text = Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him, and all ye that know his name; say: 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!' 1 Bemoan bemoan VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 5 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 1 vocative _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 14 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 23 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 dep _ _ 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=request, form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bemoan** | imperative | you *not said here* | affliction | | | | ye *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | about affliction; round *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | | affliction's name | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **break** | present · passive | | the strong staff | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **name** | | affliction | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} נֻ֤דוּ לוֹ֙ כָּל־סְבִיבָ֔יו וְכֹ֖ל יֹדְעֵ֣י שְׁמ֑וֹ אִמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֤ה נִשְׁבַּר֙ מַטֵּה־עֹ֔ז מַקֵּ֖ל תִּפְאָרָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 48:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1251` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 48:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1250/) - next →: [Jeremiah 48:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1252/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 48:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.17/)