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title: Jeremiah 51:2 (JPS 1917) — And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, and they… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, and they shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. Who acts: I, strangers. Jeremiah 51:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:2 · JPS 1917

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And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, and they shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

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**Who acts:** I, strangers · **What happens:** send, fan, empty, be · **To what, where:** strangers, Babylon, land

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This is Jeremiah 51:2 · 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 (I, strangers), 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:1379
# text = And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, and they shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
6	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fan	fan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	empty	empty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advcl	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | future | I | strangers  Babylon |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fan** | shall | strangers  Babylon | Babylon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **empty** | shall | strangers *= stranger* | Babylon's land |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source |
| 4 | **is** | shall | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  | day | about, round *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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וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֨י לְבָבֶ֤ל ׀ זָרִים֙ וְזֵר֔וּהָ וִיבֹקְק֖וּ אֶת־אַרְצָ֑הּ כִּֽי־הָי֥וּ עָלֶ֛יהָ מִסָּבִ֖יב בְּי֥וֹם רָעָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 51:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.2/)

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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:1379` 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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