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title: Jeremiah 48:46 (JPS 1917) — The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity. Jeremiah 48:46 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 48:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.

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**What happens:** undo, take away · **To what, where:** people, sons

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This is Jeremiah 48:46 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:1283
# text = The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Chemosh	Chemosh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **undo** | present · passive |  | the people of Chemosh |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take away** | present · passive |  | thy sons |  |  |  | away, captive *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖ד עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ כִּֽי־לֻקְּח֤וּ בָנֶ֙יךָ֙ בַּשֶּׁ֔בִי וּבְנֹתֶ֖יךָ בַּשִּׁבְיָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 48:46: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.46/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Woe unto thee, O Moab!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1282/)
2. **The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.**

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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:1283` 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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