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title: Jeremiah 37:20 (JPS 1917) — And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.' Who acts: you, I, supplication, thou. Jeremiah 37:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Jeremiah 37:20 · JPS 1917

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And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, supplication, thou, me, my · **What happens:** hear, pray, let, present, cause, not return · **To what, where:** thee, supplication, me

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This is Jeremiah 37:20 · 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 (you, I, supplication, 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:1040
# text = And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
46	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  | my lord *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | my supplication |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pray** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **present** | infinitive · passive | my supplication *not said here* |  |  |  | before thee |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **cause** | present | thou | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the house of Jonathan *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 8 | **die** | present | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **supplicate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «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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וְעַתָּ֕ה שְֽׁמַֽע־נָ֖א אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ תִּפָּל־נָ֤א תְחִנָּתִי֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְאַל־תְּשִׁבֵ֗נִי בֵּ֚ית יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְלֹ֥א אָמ֖וּת שָֽׁם׃

[Jeremiah 37:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.20/)

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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:1040` of Mova's parse database.

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