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title: Jeremiah 50:38 (JPS 1917) — A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is… · tree and pragmatics
description: A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad upon things of horror. Who acts: drought, boasters. Jeremiah 50:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 50:38 · JPS 1917

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A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad upon things of horror.

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**Who acts:** drought, boasters · **What happens:** be, dry up · **To what, where:** boasters, land

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This is Jeremiah 50:38 · 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 (drought, boasters), 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:1369
# text = A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad upon things of horror.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	graven	graven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | a drought |  |  |  |  | upon Babylon's waters and a land | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry up** | shall · passive |  | boasters *= boaster* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present | drought | a land |  |  |  | of graven images | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | boasters *= boaster* |  |  |  |  | upon things of horror; mad *property* | 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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חֹ֥רֶב אֶל־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ פְּסִלִים֙ הִ֔יא וּבָאֵימִ֖ים יִתְהֹלָֽלוּ׃

[Jeremiah 50:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.38/)

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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:1369` 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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