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title: Jeremiah 37:19 (JPS 1917) — Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying: The ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? Who acts: prophets, king. Jeremiah 37:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 37:19 · JPS 1917

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Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

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**Who acts:** prophets, king · **What happens:** be, prophesy, say, not come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 37:19 · 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 (prophets, 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:1039
# text = Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your prophets |  |  |  | now | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prophesy** | past | your prophets |  |  |  |  | unto you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | your prophets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **come** | shall | the king of Babylon |  |  |  |  | against you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against you=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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וְאַיֵּה֙ נְבִ֣יאֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־נִבְּא֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר לֹֽא־יָבֹ֤א מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶל֙ עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְעַ֖ל הָאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּֽאת׃

[Jeremiah 37:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.19/)

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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:1039` 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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