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title: Jeremiah 38:14 (JPS 1917) — Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that was in the house of the LORD; and the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.' Who acts: Zedekiah, third entry, king, I. Jeremiah 38:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 
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# Jeremiah 38:14 · JPS 1917

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Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that was in the house of the LORD; and the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.'

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**Who acts:** Zedekiah, third entry, king, I · **What happens:** send, take, be, say, ask, hide · **To what, where:** Jeremiah, third entry, house, thing, thee, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 38:14 · 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 (Zedekiah, third entry, king, I), 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:1057
# text = Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that was in the house of the LORD; and the king said unto Jeremiah: 'I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	iobj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
42	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	parataxis	_	_
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	42	obj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Zedekiah |  |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Zedekiah *not said here* | Jeremiah |  | the third entry |  | unto Jeremiah | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jeremiah=Theme into entry=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | the third entry |  |  | the house |  | of the LORD | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | unto Jeremiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | I | a thing | thee |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hide** | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient from i=Beneficiary |

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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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וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּ וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֤הוּ הַנָּבִיא֙ אֵלָ֔יו אֶל־מָבוֹא֙ הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ שֹׁאֵ֨ל אֲנִ֤י אֹֽתְךָ֙ דָּבָ֔ר אַל־תְּכַחֵ֥ד מִמֶּ֖נִּי דָּבָֽר׃

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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:1057` 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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