--- title: Jeremiah 26:9 (JPS 1917) — Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying: This house… · tree and pragmatics description: Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying: This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant?' And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. Who acts: thou, house, city. 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And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. **Who acts:** thou, house, city · **What happens:** prophesy, say, be, gather, name · **To what, where:** name, people, house, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Jeremiah 26:9 · 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 (thou, house, city), 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:720 # text = Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying: This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant?' And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 prophesied prophesy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Shiloh Shiloh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 desolate desolate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 inhabitant inhabitant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 33 And and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 39 against against ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prophesy** | present · perfect | thou | | | the name of the LORD | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | shall | this house | | | | | like Shiloh | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | shall | this city | | | | | without a inhabitant; desolate *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **gather** | past · passive | | all people | | the house of the LORD | | against Jeremiah | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **name** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} מַדּוּעַ֩ נִבֵּ֨יתָ בְשֵׁם־יְהוָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר כְּשִׁלוֹ֙ יִֽהְיֶה֙ הַבַּ֣יִת הַזֶּ֔ה וְהָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֛את תֶּחֱרַ֖ב מֵאֵ֣ין יוֹשֵׁ֑ב וַיִּקָּהֵ֧ל כָּל־הָעָ֛ם אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ בְּבֵ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 26:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:720` 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 26:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.719/) - next →: [Jeremiah 26:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.721/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 26:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.9/)