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title: Jeremiah 51:14 (JPS 1917) — The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, and they shall lift up a shout against thee. Who acts: LORD, I, men. Jeremiah 51:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:14 · JPS 1917

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The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, men · **What happens:** swear, fill, lift up · **To what, where:** thee, shout

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This is Jeremiah 51:14 · 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 (LORD, I, men), 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:1391
# text = The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	canker	canker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **swear** | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | by LORD | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | with men and the canker worm; surely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with man=Instrument |
| 3 | **lift up** | shall | men *= man* | a shout |  | thee |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shout=Theme against thou=Destination |

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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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נִשְׁבַּ֛ע יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּנַפְשׁ֑וֹ כִּ֣י אִם־מִלֵּאתִ֤יךְ אָדָם֙ כַּיֶּ֔לֶק וְעָנ֥וּ עָלַ֖יִךְ הֵידָֽד׃ס

[Jeremiah 51:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.14/)

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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:1391` 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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