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title: Jeremiah 14:17 (JPS 1917) — And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. Who acts: thou, eyes, sword. Jeremiah 14:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Jeremiah 14:17 · JPS 1917

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And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

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**Who acts:** thou, eyes, sword · **What happens:** say, let, run down, not cease, break · **To what, where:** word, sword, virgin daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 14:17 · 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, eyes, sword), 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:419
# text = And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	very	very	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- 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* | shall | thou | this word |  |  |  | unto sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | mine eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run down** | infinitive | mine eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | night | with tears | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with tear=Material |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | mine eyes *not said here* | sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **cease** | infinitive | sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **break** | present · passive |  | the virgin daughter of my people |  |  |  | with a great breach; with a grievous blow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with breach=Instrument |

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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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וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה תֵּרַ֨דְנָה עֵינַ֥י דִּמְעָ֛ה לַ֥יְלָה וְיוֹמָ֖ם וְאַל־תִּדְמֶ֑ינָה כִּי֩ שֶׁ֨בֶר גָּד֜וֹל נִשְׁבְּרָ֗ה בְּתוּלַת֙ בַּת־עַמִּ֔י מַכָּ֖ה נַחְלָ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

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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:419` 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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