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title: Jeremiah 48:18 (JPS 1917) — O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds. Who acts: daughter, you, spoiler, thy. Jeremiah 48:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:18 · JPS 1917

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O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.

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**Who acts:** daughter, you, spoiler, thy · **What happens:** dwell, come down, sit, come up, destroy, glory · **To what, where:** Dibon, glory, thirst, thee, strongholds

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This is Jeremiah 48:18 · 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 (daughter, you, spoiler, thy), 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:1252
# text = O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.
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	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dwellest	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dibon	Dibon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spoiler	spoiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	strongholds	stronghold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **dwell** | present | daughter  thou |  |  | Dibon |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dibon=Location |
| 2 | **come down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | thy glory |  | daughter  thou *vocative*; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from glory=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | thirst |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thirst=Location |
| 4 | **come up** | present · passive | the spoiler of Moab |  |  | thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against thou=Location |
| 5 | **destroy** | present · perfect | spoiler | thy strongholds |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stronghold=Patient |
| 6 | **glory** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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רְדִ֤י מִכָּבוֹד֙ וּשְׁבִ֣י בַצָּמָ֔א יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בַּת־דִּיב֑וֹן כִּֽי־שֹׁדֵ֤ד מוֹאָב֙ עָ֣לָה בָ֔ךְ שִׁחֵ֖ת מִבְצָרָֽיִךְ׃

[Jeremiah 48:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.18/)

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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:1252` 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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