--- title: Jeremiah 36:26 (JPS 1917) — And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son… · tree and pragmatics description: And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them. Who acts: king, LORD. 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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, LORD), 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:1014 # text = And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Jerahmeel Jerahmeel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Seraiah Seraiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Azriel Azriel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Shelemiah Shelemiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Abdeel Abdeel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 27 Baruch Baruch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 scribe scribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | the king | Jerahmeel and Seraiah and Shelemiah | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent jerahmeel=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | Baruch and the scribe and Jeremiah | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument baruch=Destination | | 3 | **hide** | past | the LORD | Jerahmeel | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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} וַיְצַוֶּ֣ה הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ אֶת־יְרַחְמְאֵ֨ל בֶּן־הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וְאֶת־שְׂרָיָ֣הוּ בֶן־עַזְרִיאֵ֗ל וְאֶת־שֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּֽן־עַבְדְּאֵ֔ל לָקַ֙חַת֙ אֶת־בָּר֣וּךְ הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְאֵ֖ת יִרְמְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֑יא וַיַּסְתִּרֵ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 36:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1014` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 36:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1013/) - next →: [Jeremiah 36:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1015/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 36:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.26/)