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title: Jeremiah 51:61 (JPS 1917) — And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: 'When thou comest to Babylon, then see… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: 'When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words, Who acts: Jeremiah, thou. Jeremiah 51:61 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 51:61 · JPS 1917

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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: 'When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

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**Who acts:** Jeremiah, thou · **What happens:** say, come, see, read · **To what, where:** Seraiah, Babylon, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 51:61 · 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 (Jeremiah, thou), 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:1440
# text = And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: 'When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Seraiah	Seraiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
8	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	comest	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jeremiah |  | Seraiah |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to seraiah=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | thou |  |  | Babylon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to babylon=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **read** | present | thou | all words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ אֶל־שְׂרָיָ֑ה כְּבֹאֲךָ֣ בָבֶ֔ל וְֽרָאִ֔יתָ וְֽקָרָ֔אתָ אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Jeremiah 51:61: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.61/)

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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:1440` 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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