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title: Jeremiah 38:11 (JPS 1917) — So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah. Who acts: Ebed melech. Jeremiah 38:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 38:11 · JPS 1917

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So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.

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**Who acts:** Ebed melech · **What happens:** take, go, wear, let down · **To what, where:** men, house, worn clouts, clouts, Jeremiah, pit

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This is Jeremiah 38:11 · 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 (Ebed melech), 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:1054
# text = So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Ebed	Ebed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	melech	Melech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	clouts	clout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **take** | past | Ebed melech |  | the men |  |  | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Ebed melech *not said here* |  |  | the house of the king |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | Ebed melech *not said here* | worn clouts and worn rags |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clout=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **let down** | infinitive | Ebed melech *not said here* | clouts *= clout* | Jeremiah | the pit |  | by cords | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jeremiah=Recipient |

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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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וַיִּקַּ֣ח ׀ עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת־הָאֲנָשִׁ֜ים בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיָּבֹ֤א בֵית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־תַּ֣חַת הָאוֹצָ֔ר וַיִּקַּ֤ח מִשָּׁם֙ בְּלוֹיֵ֣ סְחָב֔וֹת וּבְלוֹיֵ֖ מְלָחִ֑ים וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֧ם אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ אֶל־הַבּ֖וֹר בַּחֲבָלִֽים׃

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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:1054` of Mova's parse database.

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