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title: Jeremiah 32:2 (JPS 1917) — Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. Who acts: army, court. Jeremiah 32:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 32:2 · JPS 1917

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Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.

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**Who acts:** army, court · **What happens:** besiege, shut up, be · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, Jeremiah, court, king, house

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This is Jeremiah 32:2 · 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 (army, court), 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:877
# text = Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	besieging	besiege	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **besiege** | past · progressive | the king 's Babylon's army | Jerusalem |  |  | now; time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | past · passive |  | Jeremiah |  | the court of the guard |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the court of the guard | the king |  | Judah's house |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וְאָ֗ז חֵ֚יל מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל צָרִ֖ים עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְיִרְמְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֗יא הָיָ֤ה כָלוּא֙ בַּחֲצַ֣ר הַמַּטָּרָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בֵּֽית־מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 32:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.32.2/)

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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:877` 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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