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title: Jeremiah 51:6 (JPS 1917) — Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, be no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, be not cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense. Who acts: you, land, Israel. Jeremiah 51:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:6 · JPS 1917

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Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, be not cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense.

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**Who acts:** you, land, Israel · **What happens:** flee, save, not cut off, be, render · **To what, where:** midst, life, man, iniquity, time, recompense

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This is Jeremiah 51:6 · 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, land, Israel), 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:1383
# text = Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, be not cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense.
1	Flee	flee	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'S	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **flee** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the midst of Babylon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out midst=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Israel's life | every man |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary life=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **cut off** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | Babylon's iniquity |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
| 4 | **is a** | present | land | the time |  |  |  | of the LORD's vengeance | tree rules |
| 5 | **render** | future | Israel | a recompense |  |  |  | unto Babylon | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recompense=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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נֻ֣סוּ ׀ מִתּ֣וֹךְ בָּבֶ֗ל וּמַלְּטוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ נַפְשׁ֔וֹ אַל־תִּדַּ֖מּוּ בַּעֲוֺנָ֑הּ כִּי֩ עֵ֨ת נְקָמָ֥ה הִיא֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה גְּמ֕וּל ה֥וּא מְשַׁלֵּ֖ם לָֽהּ׃

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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:1383` 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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