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title: Jeremiah 31:4 (JPS 1917) — Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel; again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Who acts: I, dances. Jeremiah 31:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:4 · JPS 1917

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Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel; again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

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**Who acts:** I, dances · **What happens:** build, adorn, go, make, dance · **To what, where:** thee, thou, dances

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This is Jeremiah 31:4 · 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, dances), 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:836
# text = Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel; again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	tabrets	tabret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | future | I | thee |  |  | again | virgin of Israel *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product |
| 2 | **build** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **adorn** | shall · passive |  | thou |  |  | again | with thy tabrets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tabret=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | shall |  |  |  | the dances of dances |  | forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dance=Location |
| 5 | **make** | present | the dances of dances |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **dance** |  |  | dances *= dance* |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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ע֤וֹד אֶבְנֵךְ֙ וְֽנִבְנֵ֔ית בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל ע֚וֹד תַּעְדִּ֣י תֻפַּ֔יִךְ וְיָצָ֖את בִּמְח֥וֹל מְשַׂחֲקִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 31:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.4/)

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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:836` 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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