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title: Jeremiah 38:12 (JPS 1917) — And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these wor… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 38:12 · JPS 1917

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And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.' And Jeremiah did so.

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**Who acts:** Ebed melech, Jeremiah · **What happens:** say, put, wear, do · **To what, where:** worn clouts, armholes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 38:12 · 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, Jeremiah), 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:1055
# text = And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.' And Jeremiah did so.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Ebed	Ebed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	melech	Ebed-melech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	clouts	clout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	armholes	armhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ebed melech |  |  |  |  | unto Jeremiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | this worn clouts and rags |  | thine armholes | now | under the cords | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clout=Theme under armhole=Destination |
| 3 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past | Jeremiah |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֡אמֶר עֶבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְעֶבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ הַכּוּשִׁ֜י אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ שִׂ֣ים נָ֠א בְּלוֹאֵ֨י הַסְּחָב֤וֹת וְהַמְּלָחִים֙ תַּ֚חַת אַצִּל֣וֹת יָדֶ֔יךָ מִתַּ֖חַת לַחֲבָלִ֑ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ כֵּֽן׃

[Jeremiah 38:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.12/)

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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:1055` 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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