--- title: Jeremiah 36:29 (JPS 1917) — And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say: Thus saith th… · tree and pragmatics description: And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Thou hast burned this roll, saying: Why hast thou written therein, saying: The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? Who acts: thou, LORD, king. 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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 (thou, LORD, 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:1017 # text = And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Thou hast burned this roll, saying: Why hast thou written therein, saying: The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 concerning concern ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Jehoiakim Jehoiakim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Thus thus ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 17 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 27 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 ccomp _ _ 28 therein therein ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 32 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 cease cease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 from from ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 thence thence ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 51 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 54 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | thou | | | | | concern Jehoiakim king of Judah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **burn** | present · perfect | Thou | this roll | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **write** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | therein *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **come** | shall | the king of Babylon | | | | | certainly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **destroy** | infinitive | the king of Babylon *not said here* | this land | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | | 9 | **cause** | shall | the king of Babylon *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **cease** | to-infinitive | the king of Babylon *not said here* | | | | | from man and beast; thence *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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} וְעַל־יְהוֹיָקִ֤ים מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָה֙ תֹּאמַ֔ר כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה אַ֠תָּה שָׂרַ֜פְתָּ אֶת־הַמְּגִלָּ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מַדּוּעַ֩ כָּתַ֨בְתָּ עָלֶ֜יהָ לֵאמֹ֗ר בֹּֽא־יָב֤וֹא מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶל֙ וְהִשְׁחִית֙ אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את וְהִשְׁבִּ֥ית מִמֶּ֖נָּה אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 36:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.29/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1017` 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 36:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1016/) - next →: [Jeremiah 36:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1018/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 36:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.29/)