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title: Jeremiah 37:13 (JPS 1917) — And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 'Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.' Who acts: Jeremiah, captain, name, Thou. Jeremiah 37:13 in JPS 1917 with
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# Jeremiah 37:13 · JPS 1917

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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 'Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.'

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**Who acts:** Jeremiah, captain, name, Thou, Irijah · **What happens:** be, lay hold, say, fall away, name · **To what, where:** gate, Irijah, Jeremiah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 37:13 · 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 (Jeremiah, captain, name, 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:1033
# text = And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 'Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Irijah	Irijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Shelemiah	Shelemiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Hananiah	Hananiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
44	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
46	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	47	nsubj	_	_
47	fallest	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
48	away	away	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Chaldeans	Chaldeans	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
53	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: greet
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jeremiah |  |  | the gate |  | of Benjamin | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a captain of the ward |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Irijah's name | Irijah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay hold** | past | Jeremiah |  |  | Jeremiah |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on jeremiah=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jeremiah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **fall away** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | to the Chaldeans | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **name** |  | Irijah |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיְהִי־ה֞וּא בְּשַׁ֣עַר בִּנְיָמִ֗ן וְשָׁם֙ בַּ֣עַל פְּקִדֻ֔ת וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יִרְאִיָּ֔יה בֶּן־שֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲנַנְיָ֑ה וַיִּתְפֹּ֞שׂ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֤הוּ הַנָּבִיא֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אֶל־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים אַתָּ֥ה נֹפֵֽל׃

[Jeremiah 37:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.13/)

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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:1033` 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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