--- title: Jeremiah 6:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon!' 'Woe… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!' Who acts: ye, us, day. 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'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!' **Who acts:** ye, us, day · **What happens:** prepare, arise, let, go up, decline, stretch out · **To what, where:** war, us, shadows, evening This is Jeremiah 6:4 · 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 (ye, us, day), 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:172 # text = 'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Prepare prepare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 arise arise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 21 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 declineth decline VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prepare** | infinitive | ye | war | | | | against Zion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient | | 2 | **arise** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go up** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | noon | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **decline** | present | the day | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **stretch out** | present · passive | | the shadows of the evening | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **shadow** | | | the evening | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | 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} קַדְּשׁ֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה ק֖וּמוּ וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה בַֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם א֥וֹי לָ֙נוּ֙ כִּי־פָנָ֣ה הַיּ֔וֹם כִּ֥י יִנָּט֖וּ צִלְלֵי־עָֽרֶב׃ [Jeremiah 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:172` 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 6:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.171/) - next →: [Jeremiah 6:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.173/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.4/)