--- title: Jeremiah 38:10 (JPS 1917) — Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying: 'Take fro… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying: 'Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the pit, before he die.' Who acts: 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 (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:1053 # text = Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying: 'Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the pit, before he die.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 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|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Ebed Ebed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 melech melech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Ethiopian Ethiopian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 hence hence ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 die die VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | the king | | | | then | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | | | | | from thirty men; with thee; hence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from man=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **take up** | infinitive | | Jeremiah | | the pit | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent jeremiah=Theme out pit=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **die** | present | king | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֛ת עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֥לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֥לֶךְ הַכּוּשִׁ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר קַ֣ח בְּיָדְךָ֤ מִזֶּה֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְֽהַעֲלִ֜יתָ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֧הוּ הַנָּבִ֛יא מִן־הַבּ֖וֹר בְּטֶ֥רֶם יָמֽוּת׃ [Jeremiah 38:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1053` 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 38:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1052/) - next →: [Jeremiah 38:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1054/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 38:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.10/)