--- title: Jeremiah 14:18 (JPS 1917) — If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! · tree and pragmatics description: If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! Who acts: I, you. Jeremiah 14:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.420/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/14/) / [14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.18/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 14:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** go, behold · **To what, where:** field, slain This is Jeremiah 14:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (I, you), 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:420 # text = If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 forth forth ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 slain slain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | | the field | | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the slain | | | then | with the sword | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slain=Stimulus | 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} אִם־יָצָ֣אתִי הַשָּׂדֶ֗ה וְהִנֵּה֙ חַלְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶב וְאִם֙ בָּ֣אתִי הָעִ֔יר וְהִנֵּ֖ה תַּחֲלוּאֵ֣י רָעָ֑ב כִּֽי־גַם־נָבִ֧יא גַם־כֹּהֵ֛ן סָחֲר֥וּ אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ וְלֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃ס [Jeremiah 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.18/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!** 2. [And if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.421/) 3. [For both the prophet and the priest are gone about to a land, and knew it not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.422/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:420` 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 14:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.419/) - next →: [Jeremiah 14:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.421/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.18/)