--- title: Jeremiah 44:27 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the me… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Who acts: I, men, sword, end. 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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 (I, men, sword, end), 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:1189 # text = Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 until until SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 be be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present | I | | | | | over hands *= hand*; for evil | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location for evil=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | all men of Judah | | | the land | | of Egypt | tree rules | | 3 | **consume** | shall · passive | the sword and the famine | all men of Judah | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | | 4 | **be** | present | a end of hands | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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} הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁקֵ֧ד עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם לְרָעָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א לְטוֹבָ֑ה וְתַמּוּ֩ כָל־אִ֨ישׁ יְהוּדָ֜ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּאֶֽרֶץ־מִצְרַ֛יִם בַּחֶ֥רֶב וּבָרָעָ֖ב עַד־כְּלוֹתָֽם׃ [Jeremiah 44:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.27/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1189` 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 44:26 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1188/) - next →: [Jeremiah 44:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1190/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 44:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.27/)