--- title: Jeremiah 27:17 — Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefor… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate? Who acts: you, city. Jeremiah 27:17 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/27/) / 27:17 # Jeremiah 27:17 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** you, city · **What happens:** not hearken, serve, live, become · **To what, where:** king This is Jeremiah 27:17 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — you, city — and what happens in the verse to king, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת־מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽחְי֑וּ לָ֧מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה׃ [Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.753/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JER:665 # text = אַל־תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת־מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽחְי֑וּ לָ֧מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה׃ # verse = JER.27.17 1 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 2 advmod _ Gloss=do.not|Ref=JER_27:17!1|MId=o240270170011|Strong=0408|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 2 תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ שָׁמַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=listen|Ref=JER_27:17!2|MId=o240270170021|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:240270160052;240270160022;|Type=jussive 3-4 אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אֲלֵי אֶל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_27:17!3|MId=o240270170031|Strong=0413 4 הֶ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=JER_27:17!3|MId=o240270170032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 5 עִבְד֥וּ עָבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=serve|Ref=JER_27:17!4|MId=o240270170041|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:240270160052;240270160022;A1:240270170061;|Type=imperative 6 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JER_27:17!5|MId=o240270170051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 7 מֶֽלֶךְ־ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obj _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=JER_27:17!6|MId=o240270170061|Strong=4428|SpaceAfter=No 8 בָּבֶ֖ל בָּבֶל PROPN _ _ 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Babylon|Ref=JER_27:17!7|MId=o240270170071|Strong=0894 9-10 וִֽחְי֑וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וִֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_27:17!8|MId=o240270170081|Strong=2050b 10 חְי֑וּ חָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2 2 conj _ Gloss=live|Ref=JER_27:17!8|MId=o240270170082|Strong=2421|Frame=A0:240270160052;240270160022;|Type=imperative 11-12 לָ֧מָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לָ֧ לָמָה ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=|Ref=JER_27:17!9|MId=o240270170091|Strong=3807a 12 מָּה מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 18 obl _ Gloss=why?|Ref=JER_27:17!9|MId=o240270170092|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 13 תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 18 cop _ Gloss=will.it.become|Ref=JER_27:17!10|MId=o240270170101|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:240270170112;|Type=yiqtol 14-15 הָעִ֥יר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_27:17!11|MId=o240270170111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 עִ֥יר עִיר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=city|Ref=JER_27:17!11|MId=o240270170112|Strong=5892 16-17 הַזֹּ֖את _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JER_27:17!12|MId=o240270170121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 זֹּ֖את זֹאת DET _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=JER_27:17!12|MId=o240270170122|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative 18 חָרְבָּֽה חׇרְבָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=a.ruin|Ref=JER_27:17!13|MId=o240270170131|Strong=2723|SpaceAfter=No 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=JER_27:17!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** תִּשְׁמְעוּ *listen* | jussive · qal | | | | | | עִבְדוּ *serve* | imperative · qal | | מֶֽלֶךְ־ *the king* | | | | חְיוּ *live* | imperative · qal | | | | | | תִֽהְיֶה *will it become* | yiqtol · qal | עִיר *city* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} לָא תְקַבְּלוּן מִנְהוֹן פְּלָחוּ יַת מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל וְאִתְקַיִימוּ לְמָה תְהֵי קַרְתָא הָדָא חוּרְבָּא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.753/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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