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title: Jeremiah 38:15 (JPS 1917) — Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah: 'If I declare it unto thee, wilt t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 38:15 · JPS 1917

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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah: 'If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.'

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**Who acts:** Jeremiah, I, thou · **What happens:** say, declare, not put, give, not hearken · **To what, where:** thing, me, counsel, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 38:15 · 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 (Jeremiah, I, 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:1058
# text = Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah: 'If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	iobj	_	_
29	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
32	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jeremiah |  |  |  | then | unto Zedekiah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | thing |  |  |  | unto thee | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **put** | future | thou |  | me |  |  | to death; surely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
| 4 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | counsel | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient counsel=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **hearken** | future | thou |  |  |  |  | unto me | tree rules |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ כִּ֚י אַגִּ֣יד לְךָ֔ הֲל֖וֹא הָמֵ֣ת תְּמִיתֵ֑נִי וְכִי֙ אִיעָ֣צְךָ֔ לֹ֥א תִשְׁמַ֖ע אֵלָֽי׃

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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:1058` 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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