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title: Jeremiah 39:8 (JPS 1917) — And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the house of the peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the house of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Who acts: Chaldeans. Jeremiah 39:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 39:8 · JPS 1917

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And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the house of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

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**Who acts:** Chaldeans · **What happens:** burn, break down · **To what, where:** house, walls

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This is Jeremiah 39:8 · 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 (Chaldeans), 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:1082
# text = And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the house of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Chaldeans	chaldean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **burn** | past | the Chaldeans | the king's house and the house of the people |  |  |  | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent house=Patient with fire=Instrument |
| 2 | **break down** | past | the Chaldeans *not said here* | the walls of Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |

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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־בֵּ֤ית הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וְאֶת־בֵּ֣ית הָעָ֔ם שָׂרְפ֥וּ הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים בָּאֵ֑שׁ וְאֶת־חֹמ֥וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם נָתָֽצוּ׃

[Jeremiah 39:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.8/)

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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:1082` 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.

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