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title: Jeremiah 51:9 (JPS 1917) — We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. Who acts: We, us, judgment, Babylon. Jeremiah 51:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Jeremiah 51:9 · JPS 1917

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We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

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**Who acts:** We, us, judgment, Babylon · **What happens:** heal, not heal, forsake, let, go, reach · **To what, where:** Babylon, us, one, own country, skies

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This is Jeremiah 51:9 · 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 (We, us, judgment, Babylon), 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:1386
# text = We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	CD	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	reacheth	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | would · perfect | We | Babylon |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent babylon=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **heal** | present · passive |  | Babylon |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **forsake** | infinitive |  | Babylon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | one |  | LORD's own country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **reach** | present | Babylon's judgment |  |  |  |  | unto heaven | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lift up** | present · passive | Babylon's judgment *not said here* |  |  | the skies |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to sky=Destination |
| 8 | **judge** |  | Babylon |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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רִפִּ֣ינוּ אֶת־בָּבֶל֙ וְלֹ֣א נִרְפָּ֔תָה עִזְב֕וּהָ וְנֵלֵ֖ךְ אִ֣ישׁ לְאַרְצ֑וֹ כִּֽי־נָגַ֤ע אֶל־הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ מִשְׁפָּטָ֔הּ וְנִשָּׂ֖א עַד־שְׁחָקִֽים׃

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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:1386` of Mova's parse database.

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