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title: Jeremiah 38:23 (JPS 1917) — And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chald… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.' Who acts: women, thou, hand, city. Jeremiah 38:23 in JPS 1917 with its
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# Jeremiah 38:23 · JPS 1917

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And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.'

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**Who acts:** women, thou, hand, city · **What happens:** bring out, not escape, take, cause, burn · **To what, where:** wives, hand, city

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This is Jeremiah 38:23 · 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 (women, thou, hand, city), 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:1067
# text = And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Chaldeans	Chaldean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nsubj	_	_
41	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
51	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring out** | shall | women *= woman* | thy wives and thy children |  |  |  | to the Chaldeans | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | shall | thou |  |  | women's hand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | shall · passive | the hand of the king of Babylon |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | shall | thou | this city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **burn** | to-infinitive · passive | this city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with fire=Theme |

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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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וְאֶת־כָּל־נָשֶׁ֣יךָ וְאֶת־בָּנֶ֗יךָ מֽוֹצִאִים֙ אֶל־הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וְאַתָּ֖ה לֹא־תִמָּלֵ֣ט מִיָּדָ֑ם כִּ֣י בְיַ֤ד מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶל֙ תִּתָּפֵ֔שׂ וְאֶת־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את תִּשְׂרֹ֥ף בָּאֵֽשׁ׃פ

[Jeremiah 38:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.23/)

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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:1067` of Mova's parse database.

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