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title: Jeremiah 25:34 (JPS 1917) — Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the dust, ye l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock; for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a precious vessel. Who acts: you, days, I, ye. Jeremiah 25:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Jeremiah 25:34 · JPS 1917

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Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock; for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a precious vessel.

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**Who acts:** you, days, I, ye, your · **What happens:** wail, cry, wallow, come, break, fall · **To what, where:** yourselves, dust, you, pieces

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This is Jeremiah 25:34 · 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, days, I, ye), 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:706
# text = Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock; for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a precious vessel.
1	Wail	wail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	det	_	_
4	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wallow	wallow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	det	_	_
17	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	vocative	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nsubj	_	_
42	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ye shepherds *vocative* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wallow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourselves |  | the dust |  | ye leaders of the flock *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | the days of your slaughter |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | future | I | you |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
| 6 | **fall** | shall | ye |  |  |  |  | like a precious vessel | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **slaughter** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom slaughter «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הֵילִ֨ילוּ הָרֹעִ֜ים וְזַעֲק֗וּ וְהִֽתְפַּלְּשׁוּ֙ אַדִּירֵ֣י הַצֹּ֔אן כִּֽי־מָלְא֥וּ יְמֵיכֶ֖ם לִטְב֑וֹחַ וּתְפוֹצ֣וֹתִיכֶ֔ם וּנְפַלְתֶּ֖ם כִּכְלִ֥י חֶמְדָּֽה׃

[Jeremiah 25:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.34/)

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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:706` of Mova's parse database.

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