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title: Jeremiah 21:6 (JPS 1917) — And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence. Who acts: I, inhabitants. Jeremiah 21:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 21:6 · JPS 1917

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And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

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**Who acts:** I, inhabitants · **What happens:** smite, die · **To what, where:** inhabitants

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This is Jeremiah 21:6 · 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 (I, inhabitants), 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:572
# text = And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | future | I | the inhabitants of this city both man and beast |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus inhabitant=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | shall | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  | of a great pestilence | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of pestilence=Causer |

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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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וְהִכֵּיתִ֗י אֶת־יֽוֹשְׁבֵי֙ הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את וְאֶת־הָאָדָ֖ם וְאֶת־הַבְּהֵמָ֑ה בְּדֶ֥בֶר גָּד֖וֹל יָמֻֽתוּ׃

[Jeremiah 21:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.21.6/)

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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:572` 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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