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title: Jeremiah 51:64 (JPS 1917) — and thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise agai… · tree and pragmatics
description: and thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary.' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. Who acts: thou, Babylon, I, stone. Jeremiah 51:64 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Jeremiah 51:64 · JPS 1917

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and thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary.' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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**Who acts:** thou, Babylon, I, stone · **What happens:** say, sink, not rise, bring, be · **To what, where:** evil, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 51:64 · 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 (thou, Babylon, I, stone), 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:1443
# text = and thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary.' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
34	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sink** | shall | Babylon |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **rise** | shall | Babylon *not said here* |  |  |  | again | because the evil | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | future | I | the evil |  |  |  | upon Babylon | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | shall | stone |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the words |  |  |  | of Jeremiah; far *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ כָּ֠כָה תִּשְׁקַ֨ע בָּבֶ֤ל וְלֹֽא־תָקוּם֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָרָעָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא עָלֶ֖יהָ וְיָעֵ֑פוּ עַד־הֵ֖נָּה דִּבְרֵ֥י יִרְמְיָֽהוּ׃ס

[Jeremiah 51:64: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.64/)

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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:1443` 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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