--- title: Jeremiah 1:17 (JPS 1917) — Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them. Who acts: Thou, I. Jeremiah 1:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/1/) / [1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.17/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 1:17 · JPS 1917 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them. **Who acts:** Thou, I · **What happens:** gird up, arise, speak, command, not dismay, dismay · **To what, where:** loins, all, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 1:17 · 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, 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:16 # text = Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 gird gird VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 loins loin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 arise arise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 unto unto ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 command command VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 dismayed dismay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dismay dismay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 obj _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gird up** | infinitive | Thou | thy loins | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **arise** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | all | loins *= loin* | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **command** | present | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **dismay** | infinitive · passive | Thou *not said here* | | | | | at loins *= loin* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 6 | **dismay** | present | I | thee | | | before loins *= loin* | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | 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} וְאַתָּה֙ תֶּאְזֹ֣ר מָתְנֶ֔יךָ וְקַמְתָּ֙ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י אֲצַוֶּ֑ךָּ אַל־תֵּחַת֙ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם פֶּֽן־אֲחִתְּךָ֖ לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ [Jeremiah 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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