--- title: Jeremiah 4:9 (JPS 1917) — And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the hear… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall fail, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. Who acts: LORD, heart, priests, prophets. 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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 (LORD, heart, priests, prophets), 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:106 # text = And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall fail, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 wonder wonder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | | anger | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fail** | shall | the heart of the king | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | shall | the priests | | | | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | shall | the prophets | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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} וְהָיָ֤ה בַיּוֹם־הַהוּא֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה יֹאבַ֥ד לֵב־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְלֵ֣ב הַשָּׂרִ֑ים וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וְהַנְּבִיאִ֖ים יִתְמָֽהוּ׃ [Jeremiah 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:106` 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 4:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.105/) - next →: [Jeremiah 4:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.107/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 4:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.9/)