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title: Jeremiah 41:6 (JPS 1917) — And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them: 'Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.' Who acts: Ishmael, Mizpah, house. Jeremiah 41:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Jeremiah 41:6 · JPS 1917

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And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them: 'Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'

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**Who acts:** Ishmael, Mizpah, house · **What happens:** go, meet, weep, come, pass, say · **To what, where:** Mizpah, Ishmael, Gedaliah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 41:6 · 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 (Ishmael, Mizpah, house), 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:1115
# text = And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them: 'Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nethaniah	Nethaniah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mizpah	Mizpah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Gedaliah	Gedaliah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
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	_	45	case	_	_
45	Ahikam	Ahikam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
47	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Ishmael |  |  | Mizpah |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from mizpah=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Ishmael *not said here* | Ishmael |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | Ishmael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | Mizpah |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **meet** | past | Mizpah | Ishmael |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mizpah |  |  |  |  | unto Ishmael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | Gedaliah |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gedaliah=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַ֠יֵּצֵא יִשְׁמָעֵ֨אל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָ֤ה לִקְרָאתָם֙ מִן־הַמִּצְפָּ֔ה הֹלֵ֥ךְ הָלֹ֖ךְ וּבֹכֶ֑ה וַֽיְהִי֙ כִּפְגֹ֣שׁ אֹתָ֔ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם בֹּ֖אוּ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־אֲחִיקָֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 41:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.6/)

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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:1115` 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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