--- title: Jeremiah 19:7 (JPS 1917) — and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this plac… · tree and pragmatics description: and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; Who acts: I, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.539/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/19/) / [19:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.7/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 19:7 · JPS 1917 and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; **Who acts:** I, Topheth, hand · **What happens:** make, cause, fall, seek, give, be · **To what, where:** counsel, place, Topheth, life, carcasses, food This is Jeremiah 19:7 · 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 (I, Topheth, hand), 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:539 # text = and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 void void ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 seek seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 carcasses carcass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 48 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 49 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 xcomp _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 fowls fowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 58 for for ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 conj _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 64 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | future | I | the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem | | this place | | void *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Product | | 2 | **cause** | future | I | Topheth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Topheth *not said here* | | | | before Topheth's enemies | by the sword; by the hand of Topheth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sword=Location | | 4 | **seek** | present | the hand of Topheth | Topheth's life | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 5 | **give** | future | I | Topheth's carcasses | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | food and the beasts of the earth | | | | for the fowls of the heaven | tree rules | 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} וּ֠בַקֹּתִי אֶת־עֲצַ֨ת יְהוּדָ֤ה וִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ בַּמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה וְהִפַּלְתִּ֤ים בַּחֶ֙רֶב֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְיַ֖ד מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת־נִבְלָתָם֙ לְמַֽאֲכָ֔ל לְע֥וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וּלְבֶהֱמַ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Jeremiah 19:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.7/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:539` 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 19:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.538/) - next →: [Jeremiah 19:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.540/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 19:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.7/)