--- title: Jeremiah 43:9 (JPS 1917) — 'Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the mortar in the f… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the mortar in the framework, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; Who acts: you, mortar. 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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 (you, mortar), 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:1158 # text = 'Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the mortar in the framework, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 framework framework NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 entry entry NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 acl:relcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Tahpanhes Tahpanhes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | great stones | | thy hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location | | 2 | **hide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | stones *= stone* | | the mortar in the framework | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in mortar=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | the mortar in the framework | | | the entry | | of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes; in the sight of the men of Judah | tree rules | | 4 | **sight** | | | the men of Judah | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} קַ֣ח בְּיָדְךָ֞ אֲבָנִ֣ים גְּדֹל֗וֹת וּטְמַנְתָּ֤ם בַּמֶּ֙לֶט֙ בַּמַּלְבֵּ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֛ר בְּפֶ֥תַח בֵּית־פַּרְעֹ֖ה בְּתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס לְעֵינֵ֖י אֲנָשִׁ֥ים יְהוּדִֽים׃ [Jeremiah 43:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.43.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1158` 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 43:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1157/) - next →: [Jeremiah 43:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1159/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 43:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.43.9/)