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title: Jeremiah 50:43 (JPS 1917) — The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his hands wax f… · tree and pragmatics
description: The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his hands wax feeble; anguish hath taken hold of him, and pain, as of a woman in travail. Who acts: king, hands, anguish. Jeremiah 50:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 50:43 · JPS 1917

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The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his hands wax feeble; anguish hath taken hold of him, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

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**Who acts:** king, hands, anguish · **What happens:** hear, wax, take, hold · **To what, where:** fame, hold, king

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This is Jeremiah 50:43 · 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 (king, hands, anguish), 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:1374
# text = The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his hands wax feeble; anguish hath taken hold of him, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wax	wax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | the king of Babylon | the fame of people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wax** | present | king's hands |  |  |  |  | feeble *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect | anguish | hold of king |  |  |  | as a woman in travail | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hold=Theme as woman=Attribute |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | king |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שָׁמַ֧ע מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל אֶת־שִׁמְעָ֖ם וְרָפ֣וּ יָדָ֑יו צָרָה֙ הֶחֱזִיקַ֔תְהוּ חִ֖יל כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 50:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.43/)

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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:1374` 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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