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title: Jeremiah 46:13 (JPS 1917) — The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. Who acts: LORD, Nebuchadrezzar king. Jeremiah 46:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 46:13 · JPS 1917

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The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

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**Who acts:** LORD, Nebuchadrezzar king · **What happens:** speak, come, smite · **To what, where:** word, Jeremiah, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 46:13 · 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 (LORD, Nebuchadrezzar king), 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:1210
# text = The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	Nebuchadrezzar	Nebuchadrezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | the word | Jeremiah |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | should | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon *not said here* | the land of Egypt |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer |

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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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הַדָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ הַנָּבִ֑יא לָב֗וֹא נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל לְהַכּ֖וֹת אֶת־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

[Jeremiah 46:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.13/)

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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:1210` 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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