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title: Jeremiah 21:3 (JPS 1917) — Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: Who acts: Jeremiah, ye. Jeremiah 21:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 21:3 · JPS 1917

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Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

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**Who acts:** Jeremiah, ye · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Pashhur, Zedekiah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 21:3 · 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, ye), 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:569
# text = Then said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jeremiah |  | Pashhur |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | ye |  | Zedekiah |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to zedekiah=Recipient |

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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 אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם כֹּ֥ה תֹאמְרֻ֖ן אֶל־צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃

[Jeremiah 21:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.21.3/)

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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:569` 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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