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title: Jeremiah 20:1 (JPS 1917) — Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. Who acts: Immer, Pashhur, Jeremiah. Jeremiah 20:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 20:1 · JPS 1917

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Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

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**Who acts:** Immer, Pashhur, Jeremiah · **What happens:** be, hear, prophesy · **To what, where:** chief officer, house, Jeremiah, things

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This is Jeremiah 20:1 · 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 (Immer, Pashhur, Jeremiah), 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:548
# text = Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
2	Pashhur	Pashhur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Immer	Immer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	prophesying	prophesy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **is a** | past | Immer | chief officer |  | the house of the LORD |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Pashhur | Jeremiah |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prophesy** | gerund | Jeremiah *not said here* | this things |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע פַּשְׁחוּר֙ בֶּן־אִמֵּ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהֽוּא־פָקִ֥יד נָגִ֖יד בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ נִבָּ֖א אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

[Jeremiah 20:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.1/)

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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:548` 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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