--- title: Jeremiah 38:17 (JPS 1917) — Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of h… · tree and pragmatics description: Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou, and thy house; Who acts: Jeremiah, LORD, thou, soul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1060/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/38/) / [38:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.17/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 38:17 · JPS 1917 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou, and thy house; **Who acts:** Jeremiah, LORD, thou, soul · **What happens:** say, go, live, not burn · **To what, where:** city · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 38:17 · 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, LORD, thou, soul), 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:1060 # text = Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou, and thy house; 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Zedekiah Zedekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Thus thus ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 If if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 27 forth forth ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 unto unto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 37 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 43 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 55 nsubj _ _ 54 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 57 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 55 appos _ _ 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ _ 62 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | | | | | unto the king of Babylon's princes; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | shall | thy soul | | | | then | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **burn** | shall · passive | | this city | | | | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fire=Instrument | | 6 | **live** | shall | thou | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֣הוּ אֶל־צִדְקִיָּ֡הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֵ֨י צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אִם־יָצֹ֨א תֵצֵ֜א אֶל־שָׂרֵ֤י מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶל֙ וְחָיְתָ֣ה נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ וְהָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את לֹ֥א תִשָּׂרֵ֖ף בָּאֵ֑שׁ וְחָיִ֖תָה אַתָּ֥ה וּבֵיתֶֽךָ׃ [Jeremiah 38:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1060` 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 38:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1059/) - next →: [Jeremiah 38:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1061/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 38:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.17/)