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title: Jeremiah 48:37 (JPS 1917) — For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands… · tree and pragmatics
description: For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. Who acts: head, cuttings. Jeremiah 48:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:37 · JPS 1917

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For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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**Who acts:** head, cuttings · **What happens:** be, clip · **To what, where:** beard

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This is Jeremiah 48:37 · 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 (head, cuttings), 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:1273
# text = For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	clipped	clip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	cuttings	cutting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | every head |  |  |  |  | bald *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clip** | participle · passive |  | every beard |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | cuttings |  |  |  |  | upon all hands and the loins | 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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כִּ֤י כָל־רֹאשׁ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְכָל־זָקָ֖ן גְּרֻעָ֑ה עַ֤ל כָּל־יָדַ֙יִם֙ גְּדֻדֹ֔ת וְעַל־מָתְנַ֖יִם שָֽׂק׃

[Jeremiah 48:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.37/)

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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:1273` 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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