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title: Jeremiah 41:1 (JPS 1917) — Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. Who acts: it, Ishmael
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# Jeremiah 41:1 · JPS 1917

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Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

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**Who acts:** it, Ishmael · **What happens:** come, pass, eat · **To what, where:** Mizpah, bread

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This is Jeremiah 41:1 · 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 (it, Ishmael), 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:1110
# text = Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
12	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Nethaniah	Nethaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Elishama	Elishama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	seed	seed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	royal	royal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
45	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Gedaliah	Gedaliah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Ahikam	Ahikam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
59	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
60	together	together	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | it |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | month |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Ishmael and ten men with king |  |  | Mizpah |  | unto Gedaliah | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mizpah=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **eat** | past · do-support | Ishmael | bread |  | Mizpah; there |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בָּ֣א יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָ֣ה בֶן־אֱלִישָׁמָ֣ע מִזֶּ֣רַע הַ֠מְּלוּכָה וְרַבֵּ֨י הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וַעֲשָׂרָ֨ה אֲנָשִׁ֥ים אִתּ֛וֹ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־אֲחִיקָ֖ם הַמִּצְפָּ֑תָה וַיֹּ֨אכְלוּ שָׁ֥ם לֶ֛חֶם יַחְדָּ֖ו בַּמִּצְפָּֽה׃

[Jeremiah 41:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.1/)

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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:1110` 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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