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title: Jeremiah 50:21 (JPS 1917) — Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. Who acts: you, LORD, I. Jeremiah 50:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Jeremiah 50:21 · JPS 1917

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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, I · **What happens:** go up, waste, destroy, say, do, accord · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 50:21 · 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 (you, LORD, I), 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:1351
# text = Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Merathaim	Merathaim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Pekod	Pekod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	waste	waste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	case	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the land of Merathaim; against land; against the inhabitants of Pekod | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **waste** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after inhabitants *= inhabitant* | utterly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **command** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  |  | 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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עַל־הָאָ֤רֶץ מְרָתַ֙יִם֙ עֲלֵ֣ה עָלֶ֔יהָ וְאֶל־יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י פְּק֑וֹד חֲרֹ֨ב וְהַחֲרֵ֤ם אַֽחֲרֵיהֶם֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וַעֲשֵׂ֕ה כְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוִּיתִֽיךָ׃ס

[Jeremiah 50:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.21/)

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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:1351` 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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