--- title: Jeremiah 40:2 (JPS 1917) — And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him: 'The… · tree and pragmatics description: And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him: 'The LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place; Who acts: captain, LORD. 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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 (captain, LORD), 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:1094 # text = And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him: 'The LORD thy God pronounced this evil upon this place; 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 pronounced pronounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the captain of the guard | | Jeremiah | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jeremiah=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the captain of the guard *not said here* | | | | | unto captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pronounce** | past | the LORD | this evil | | | | upon this place | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=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} וַיִּקַּ֥ח רַב־טַבָּחִ֖ים לְיִרְמְיָ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ דִּבֶּר֙ אֶת־הָרָעָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את אֶל־הַמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ [Jeremiah 40:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1094` 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 40:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1093/) - next →: [Jeremiah 40:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1095/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 40:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.2/)