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title: Jeremiah 6:1 (JPS 1917) — Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction. Who acts: you, evil. Jeremiah 6:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Jeremiah 6:1 · JPS 1917

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Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

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**Who acts:** you, evil · **What happens:** put, blow, set up, look · **To what, where:** yourselves, covert, horn, signal, Beth cherem

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This is Jeremiah 6:1 · 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 (you, evil), 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:169
# text = Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	covert	covert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Tekoa	Tekoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	cherem	cherem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	looketh	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
38	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  | covert |  | ye children of Benjamin *vocative*; away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme under covert=Destination |
| 2 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the horn |  |  |  | in Tekoa | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Patient in tekoa=Topic |
| 3 | **set up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a signal |  | Beth cherem |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme on cherem=Destination |
| 4 | **look** | present | evil |  |  |  |  | from the north; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from north=Theme |

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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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הָעִ֣זוּ ׀ בְּנֵ֣י בִניָמִ֗ןמִקֶּ֙רֶב֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּבִתְק֙וֹעַ֙ תִּקְע֣וּ שׁוֹפָ֔ר וְעַל־בֵּ֥ית הַכֶּ֖רֶם בֵּ֥ית הַכֶּ֖רֶם שְׂא֣וּ מַשְׂאֵ֑ת כִּ֥י רָעָ֛ה נִשְׁקְפָ֥ה מִצָּפ֖וֹן וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּדֽוֹל׃

[Jeremiah 6:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.1/)

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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:169` 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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