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title: Jeremiah 50:40 (JPS 1917) — As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities th… · tree and pragmatics
description: As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Who acts: God, LORD, man, son. Jeremiah 50:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 50:40 · JPS 1917

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As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

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**Who acts:** God, LORD, man, son · **What happens:** overthrow, say, abide, dwell · **To what, where:** Sodom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 50:40 · 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 (God, LORD, man, son), 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:1371
# text = As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	Sodom	Sodom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Gomorrah	Gomorrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
32	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **overthrow** | past | God | Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **abide** | shall | no man |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | shall | any son of man |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֨ת אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־סְדֹ֧ם וְאֶת־עֲמֹרָ֛ה וְאֶת־שְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה לֹֽא־יֵשֵׁ֥ב שָׁם֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְלֹֽא־יָג֥וּר בָּ֖הּ בֶּן־אָדָֽם׃

[Jeremiah 50:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.40/)

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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:1371` 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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