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title: Jeremiah 51:38 (JPS 1917) — They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps. Who acts: inhabitants. Jeremiah 51:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:38 · JPS 1917

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They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants · **What happens:** roar, growl

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This is Jeremiah 51:38 · 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 (inhabitants), 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:1415
# text = They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	roar	roar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	growl	growl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	whelps	whelp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | like young lions; together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **growl** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | as lions's whelps | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃

[Jeremiah 51:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/)

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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:1415` 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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