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title: Jeremiah 5:6 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the des… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased. Who acts: lion, wolf, leopard, one. Jeremiah 5:6
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# Jeremiah 5:6 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.

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**Who acts:** lion, wolf, leopard, one, transgressions, eyes · **What happens:** slay, spoil, watch, go out, tear, be · **To what, where:** eyes, cities, one, pieces, backslidings

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This is Jeremiah 5:6 · 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 (lion, wolf, leopard, one), 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:141
# text = Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	watcheth	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	advcl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	backslidings	backsliding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **slay** | present · do-support | a lion out the forest | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **spoil** | present · do-support | a wolf of the deserts | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | present | a leopard |  |  | eyes's cities |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over city=Location |
| 4 | **go out** | present | every one |  |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tear** | present · passive |  | every one |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | eyes's transgressions |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **increase** | present · passive |  | eyes's backslidings |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **transgress** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: 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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עַל־כֵּן֩ הִכָּ֨ם אַרְיֵ֜ה מִיַּ֗עַר זְאֵ֤ב עֲרָבוֹת֙ יְשָׁדְדֵ֔ם נָמֵ֤ר שֹׁקֵד֙ עַל־עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם כָּל־הַיּוֹצֵ֥א מֵהֵ֖נָּה יִטָּרֵ֑ף כִּ֤י רַבּוּ֙ פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֔ם עָצְמ֖וּ מְשׁוּבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.6/)

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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:141` 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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