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title: Jeremiah 36:21 (JPS 1917) — So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Who acts: king. Jeremiah 36:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 36:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send, fetch, take · **To what, where:** Jehudi, roll, chamber

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This is Jeremiah 36:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (king), 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:1008
# text = So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jehudi	Jehudi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Elishama	Elishama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the king | Jehudi |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jehudi=Theme |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the roll |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | king | roll |  | the chamber of Elishama |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out chamber=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־יְהוּדִ֗י לָקַ֙חַת֙ אֶת־הַמְּגִלָּ֔ה וַיִּ֨קָּחֶ֔הָ מִלִּשְׁכַּ֖ת אֱלִישָׁמָ֣ע הַסֹּפֵ֑ר וַיִּקְרָאֶ֤הָ יְהוּדִי֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וּבְאָזְנֵי֙ כָּל־הַשָּׂרִ֔ים הָעֹמְדִ֖ים מֵעַ֥ל הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

[Jeremiah 36:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe.**
2. [And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1009/)

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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:1008` 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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