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title: Jeremiah 36:17 (JPS 1917) — And they asked Baruch, saying: 'Tell us now: How didst thou write al… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they asked Baruch, saying: 'Tell us now: How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?' Who acts: princes, thou. Jeremiah 36:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 36:17 · JPS 1917

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And they asked Baruch, saying: 'Tell us now: How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?'

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**Who acts:** princes, thou · **What happens:** ask, say, tell, write · **To what, where:** Baruch, us, words, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 36:17 · 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, thou), 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:1004
# text = And they asked Baruch, saying: 'Tell us now: How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Baruch	Baruch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | princes *= prince* |  | Baruch |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baruch=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | us |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **write** | past · do-support | thou | all words |  | Baruch's mouth |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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וְאֶ֨ת־בָּר֔וּךְ שָׁאֲל֖וּ לֵאמֹ֑ר הַגֶּד־נָ֣א לָ֔נוּ אֵ֗יךְ כָּתַ֛בְתָּ אֶת־כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִפִּֽיו׃

[Jeremiah 36:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.17/)

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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:1004` 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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