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title: Jeremiah 39:1 (JPS 1917) — in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, cam… · tree and pragmatics
description: in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; Who acts: Nebuchadrezzar king. Jeremiah 39:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 39:1 · JPS 1917

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in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

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**Who acts:** Nebuchadrezzar king · **What happens:** come, besiege · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, army

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This is Jeremiah 39:1 · 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 (Nebuchadrezzar 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:1075
# text = in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Nebuchadrezzar	Nebuchadrezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and king's army |  |  | Jerusalem | month; year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against jerusalem=Location |
| 2 | **besiege** | past | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and king's army *not said here* | army |  |  |  |  | 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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בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה הַ֠תְּשִׁעִית לְצִדְקִיָּ֨הוּ מֶלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֜ה בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂרִ֗י בָּ֠א נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֨ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֤ל וְכָל־חֵילוֹ֙ אֶל־יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ עָלֶֽיהָ׃ס

[Jeremiah 39:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.1/)

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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:1075` of Mova's parse database.

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