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title: Jeremiah 51:54 (JPS 1917) — Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! Jeremiah 51:54 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:54 · JPS 1917

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Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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This is Jeremiah 51:54 · 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: 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:1432
# text = Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
1	Hark	hark	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Chaldeans	Chaldeans	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=frag

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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ק֥וֹל זְעָקָ֖ה מִבָּבֶ֑ל וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּד֖וֹל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

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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:1432` 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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