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title: Jeremiah 25:16 (JPS 1917) — And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, becau… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them. — Who acts: nations, I. Jeremiah 25:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 25:16 · JPS 1917

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And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them. —

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**Who acts:** nations, I · **What happens:** drink, reel, be, send · **To what, where:** sword

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This is Jeremiah 25:16 · 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 (nations, I), 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:687
# text = And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them. —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	reel	reel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADV	IN	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	madmen	madman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **drink** | shall | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  | because the sword | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reel** | infinitive | nations *= nation* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | nations *= nation* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like madmen | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | future | I | the sword |  |  |  | among nations *= nation* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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וְשָׁת֕וּ וְהִֽתְגֹּֽעֲשׁ֖וּ וְהִתְהֹלָ֑לוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י הַחֶ֔רֶב אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י שֹׁלֵ֖חַ בֵּינֹתָֽם׃

[Jeremiah 25:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.16/)

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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:687` 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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