--- title: Jeremiah 32:4 (JPS 1917) — and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the C… · tree and pragmatics description: and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; Who acts: king, eyes. 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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 (king, eyes), 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:879 # text = and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 Zedekiah Zedekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Chaldeans Chaldeans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 surely surely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 43 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **escape** | shall | king of Judah | | | the hand of the Chaldeans | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **deliver** | shall · passive | king of Judah *not said here* | | | the hand of the king of Babylon | | surely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | shall | king of Judah *not said here* | mouth to mouth | | | | with king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **behold** | shall | king's eyes | king's eyes | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | 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} וְצִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה לֹ֥א יִמָּלֵ֖ט מִיַּ֣ד הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כִּ֣י הִנָּתֹ֤ן יִנָּתֵן֙ בְּיַ֣ד מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֔ל וְדִבֶּר־פִּ֣יו עִם־פִּ֔יו וְעֵינָ֖יו אֶת־עֵינָ֥יו תִּרְאֶֽינָה׃ [Jeremiah 32:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.32.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:879` 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 32:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.878/) - next →: [Jeremiah 32:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.880/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 32:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.32.4/)