--- title: Jeremiah 51:55 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD spoileth Babylon, and destroyeth out of her the great v… · tree and pragmatics description: For the LORD spoileth Babylon, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is uttered; Who acts: LORD, waves, Chaldeans, voice. 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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 (LORD, waves, Chaldeans, voice), 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:1433 # text = For the LORD spoileth Babylon, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is uttered; 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoileth spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 destroyeth destroy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 roar roar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 uttered utter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spoil** | present | the LORD | Babylon | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **destroy** | present | the LORD *not said here* | the great voice of Babylon | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 3 | **roar** | present | Chaldeans's waves | | | | | like many waters | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | present · passive | | the noise of Chaldeans's voice | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **wave** | | Chaldeans | | | | | | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **noise** | | Chaldeans's voice | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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} כִּֽי־שֹׁדֵ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת־בָּבֶ֔ל וְאִבַּ֥ד מִמֶּ֖נָּה ק֣וֹל גָּד֑וֹל וְהָמ֤וּ גַלֵּיהֶם֙ כְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֔ים נִתַּ֥ן שְׁא֖וֹן קוֹלָֽם׃ [Jeremiah 51:55: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.55/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1433` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 51:54 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1432/) - next →: [Jeremiah 51:56 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1434/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 51:55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.55/)