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title: Jeremiah 36:15 (JPS 1917) — And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears. Who acts: princes, Baruch. Jeremiah 36:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 36:15 · JPS 1917

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And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears.

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**Who acts:** princes, Baruch · **What happens:** say, sit down, read · **To what, where:** roll, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 36:15 · 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 (princes, Baruch), 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:1002
# text = And they said unto him: 'Sit down now, and read it in our ears.' So Baruch read it in their ears.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
20	So	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	Baruch	Baruch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | unto Baruch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive |  | roll |  | our ears |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **read** | past | Baruch | roll |  | princes's ears |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו שֵׁ֣ב נָ֔א וּקְרָאֶ֖נָּה בְּאָזְנֵ֑ינוּ וַיִּקְרָ֥א בָר֖וּךְ בְּאָזְנֵיהֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 36:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.15/)

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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:1002` 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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