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title: Jeremiah 26:8 (JPS 1917) — Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all t… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 26:8 · JPS 1917

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Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying: 'Thou shalt surely die.

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**Who acts:** house, Jeremiah, end, LORD, priests, Thou · **What happens:** come, pass, make, speak, command, lay · **To what, where:** end, all, Jeremiah, hold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 26:8 · 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 (house, Jeremiah, end, LORD), 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:719
# text = Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying: 'Thou shalt surely die.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
39	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
40	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	advcl	_	_
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
47	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	50	nsubj	_	_
48	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | house |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Jeremiah | a end |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a end *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** | past · perfect | the LORD | Jeremiah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto all people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **lay** | past | the priests and the prophets and all people | hold |  |  |  | on Jeremiah | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on he=Destination |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the priests and the prophets and all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **die** | shall | Thou |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כְּכַלּ֣וֹת יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ לְדַבֵּר֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה לְדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֑ם וַיִּתְפְּשׂ֨וּ אֹת֜וֹ הַכֹּהֲנִ֧ים וְהַנְּבִאִ֛ים וְכָל־הָעָ֥ם לֵאמֹ֖ר מ֥וֹת תָּמֽוּת׃

[Jeremiah 26:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.8/)

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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:719` 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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