--- title: Jeremiah 38:27 (JPS 1917) — Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told… · tree and pragmatics description: Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. Who acts: princes, king. Jeremiah 38:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1071/) [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/) / [38:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.27/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 38:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. **Who acts:** princes, king · **What happens:** come, ask, tell, according, command · **To what, where:** king, princes, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 38:27 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (princes, king), 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:1071 # text = Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. 1 Then then ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 according according VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 case _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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** | past | all princes | | | | then | unto Jeremiah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | all princes *not said here* | | king | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king | | princes *= prince* | | | according all words | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **according** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **command** | past · perfect | the king | all words | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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} וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל־הַשָּׂרִ֤ים אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ וַיִּשְׁאֲל֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ וַיַּגֵּ֤ד לָהֶם֙ כְּכָל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֖ה הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיַּחֲרִ֣שׁוּ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֖ע הַדָּבָֽר׃פ [Jeremiah 38:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.27/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.** 2. [So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not reported.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1072/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1071` 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 38:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1070/) - next →: [Jeremiah 38:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1072/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 38:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.27/)