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title: Jeremiah 4:29 (JPS 1917) — For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein. Who acts: whole city, cities, man, horsemen. Jeremiah 4:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Jeremiah 4:29 · JPS 1917

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For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

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**Who acts:** whole city, cities, man, horsemen · **What happens:** flee, go, climb up, forsake, dwell, noise · **To what, where:** thickets, rocks, city

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This is Jeremiah 4:29 · 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 (whole city, cities, man, horsemen), 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:131
# text = For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bowmen	bowman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fleeth	flee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present | the whole city |  |  |  |  | for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | cities *= city* |  |  | the thickets |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into thicket=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **climb up** | present | cities *= city* *not said here* |  |  | the rocks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory |
| 4 | **forsake** | present · passive |  | every city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dwell** | present | a man |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **noise** |  | the horsemen and bowmen |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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מִקּ֨וֹל פָּרָ֜שׁ וְרֹ֣מֵה קֶ֗שֶׁת בֹּרַ֙חַת֙ כָּל־הָעִ֔יר בָּ֚אוּ בֶּעָבִ֔ים וּבַכֵּפִ֖ים עָל֑וּ כָּל־הָעִ֣יר עֲזוּבָ֔ה וְאֵין־יוֹשֵׁ֥ב בָּהֵ֖ן אִֽישׁ׃

[Jeremiah 4:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.29/)

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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:131` of Mova's parse database.

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