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title: Jeremiah 6:6 (JPS 1917) — For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cas… · tree and pragmatics
description: For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her. Who acts: LORD, ye, this, oppression. Jeremiah 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Jeremiah 6:6 · JPS 1917

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For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

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**Who acts:** LORD, ye, this, oppression · **What happens:** say, hew down, cast up, be, punish · **To what, where:** trees, mound, city · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 6:6 · 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 (LORD, ye, this, oppression), 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:174
# text = For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hew	hew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
35	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hew down** | infinitive | ye | Zion's trees |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cast up** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | a mound |  |  |  | against Jerusalem | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mound=Theme against jerusalem=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | the city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **punish** | to-infinitive · passive | the LORD of hosts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **be** | present | oppression in the midst of Zion |  |  | there |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת כִּרְת֣וּ עֵצָ֔ה וְשִׁפְכ֥וּ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סֹלְלָ֑ה הִ֚יא הָעִ֣יר הָפְקַ֔ד כֻּלָּ֖הּ עֹ֥שֶׁק בְּקִרְבָּֽהּ׃

[Jeremiah 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.6/)

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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:174` 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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