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title: Jeremiah 9:17 (JPS 1917) — And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. Who acts: you, hosts, eyes, eyelids. Jeremiah 9:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 9:17 · JPS 1917

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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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**Who acts:** you, hosts, eyes, eyelids · **What happens:** let, make, take up, run down, gush out · **To what, where:** hosts, haste, wailing

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This is Jeremiah 9:17 · 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 (you, hosts, eyes, eyelids), 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:287
# text = And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gush	gush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | hosts *= host* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | hosts *= host* *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **take up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a wailing |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wailing=Theme for we=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **run down** | may | our eyes |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with tear=Material |
| 5 | **gush out** | present | our eyelids |  |  |  |  | with waters | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with water=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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וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ נֶ֑הִי וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃

[Jeremiah 9:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.17/)

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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:287` 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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