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title: Jeremiah 51:53 (JPS 1917) — Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. Who acts: Babylon, spoilers, LORD. Jeremiah 51:53 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:53 · JPS 1917

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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** Babylon, spoilers, LORD · **What happens:** mount up, fortify, come, say · **To what, where:** heaven, height · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 51:53 · 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, spoilers, LORD), 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:1431
# text = Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fortify	fortify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	spoilers	spoiler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount up** | should | Babylon |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Location |
| 2 | **fortify** | should | Babylon | the height of Babylon's strength |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent height=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | shall | spoilers |  |  |  |  | from Me; unto Babylon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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כִּֽי־תַעֲלֶ֤ה בָבֶל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְכִ֥י תְבַצֵּ֖ר מְר֣וֹם עֻזָּ֑הּ מֵאִתִּ֗י יָבֹ֧אוּ שֹׁדְדִ֛ים לָ֖הּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Jeremiah 51:53: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.53/)

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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:1431` 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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