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title: Jeremiah 48:20 (JPS 1917) — Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry; tell ye it i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled. Who acts: ye. Jeremiah 48:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:20 · JPS 1917

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Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled.

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** put, dismay, wail, cry, tell, spoil · **To what, where:** Moab, shame, Arnon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 48:20 · 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 (ye), 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:1254
# text = Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed; wail and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled.
1	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dismayed	dismay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wail	wail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Arnon	Arnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive |  | Moab |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **dismay** | present · passive |  | shame |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wail** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ye |  | shame | Arnon |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **spoil** | present · passive |  | Moab |  |  |  |  | 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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הֹבִ֥ישׁ מוֹאָ֛ב כִּֽי־חַ֖תָּה הֵילִ֣ילוּ ׀ וּֽזְעָ֑קוּ הַגִּ֣ידוּ בְאַרְנ֔וֹן כִּ֥י שֻׁדַּ֖ד מוֹאָֽב׃

[Jeremiah 48:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.20/)

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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:1254` 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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