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title: Jeremiah 51:40 (JPS 1917) — I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with h… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. Who acts: I. Jeremiah 51:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:40 · JPS 1917

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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bring down · **To what, where:** inhabitants, slaughter

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This is Jeremiah 51:40 · 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 (I), 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:1417
# text = I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	he	he	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring down** | future | I | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  | the slaughter |  | like lambs; like rams with he goats; down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to slaughter=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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אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 51:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.40/)

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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:1417` 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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