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title: Jeremiah 52:16 (JPS 1917) — But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. Who acts: Nebuzaradan, poorest. Jeremiah 52:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 52:16 · JPS 1917

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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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**Who acts:** Nebuzaradan, poorest · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** poorest, vinedressers

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This is Jeremiah 52:16 · 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 (Nebuzaradan, poorest), 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:1460
# text = But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Nebuzaradan	Nebuzaradan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	vinedressers	vinedresser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **leave** | past | Nebuzaradan | the poorest of the land |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the poorest of the land *not said here* | vinedressers and husbandmen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וּמִדַּלּ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֕יר נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 52:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.16/)

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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:1460` 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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