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title: Jeremiah 40:8 (JPS 1917) — then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethan… · tree and pragmatics
description: then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. Who acts: men. Jeremiah 40:8 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Jeremiah 40:8 · JPS 1917

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then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Mizpah, Gedaliah

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This is Jeremiah 40:8 · 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 (men), 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:1101
# text = then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
1	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Gedaliah	Gedaliah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Nethaniah	Nethaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Johanan	Johanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kareah	Kareah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Seraiah	Seraiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Tanhumeth	Tanhumeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Ephai	Ephai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Netophathite	Netophathite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Jezaniah	Jezaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Maacathite	Maacathite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	appos	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  | Mizpah | Gedaliah | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to gedaliah=Initial\_Location to mizpah=Destination |

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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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וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָ֖ה הַמִּצְפָּ֑תָה וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָ֡הוּ וְיוֹחָנָ֣ן וְיוֹנָתָ֣ן בְּנֵֽי־קָ֠רֵחַ וּשְׂרָיָ֨ה בֶן־תַּנְחֻ֜מֶת וּבְנֵ֣י ׀ עֵיפַ֣י הַנְּטֹפָתִ֗י וִֽיזַנְיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־הַמַּ֣עֲכָתִ֔י הֵ֖מָּה וְאַנְשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

[Jeremiah 40:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.8/)

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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:1101` of Mova's parse database.

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