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title: Jeremiah 51:37 (JPS 1917) — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an ast… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. Who acts: Babylon. Jeremiah 51:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:37 · JPS 1917

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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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**Who acts:** Babylon · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** heaps

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This is Jeremiah 51:37 · 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 (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:1414
# text = And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hissing	hissing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **become** | shall | Babylon | heaps without inhabitant and a astonishment and a hissing |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְגַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעוֹן־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃

[Jeremiah 51:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.37/)

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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:1414` 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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