--- title: Jeremiah 34:4 (JPS 1917) — Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Thus saith… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Thus saith the LORD concerning thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword; Who acts: you, LORD, Thou. 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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 (you, LORD, Thou), 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:950 # text = Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Thus saith the LORD concerning thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword; 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 O o INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 10 Zedekiah Zedekiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Judah Judah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Thus thus ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 19 concerning concerning ADP VBG _ 20 case _ _ 20 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nmod _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 23 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word of the LORD | | | | Zedekiah king of Judah *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD concerning thee | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **die** | shall | Thou | | | | | by the sword | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «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} אַ֚ךְ שְׁמַ֣ע דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ עָלֶ֔יךָ לֹ֥א תָמ֖וּת בֶּחָֽרֶב׃ [Jeremiah 34:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:950` 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 34:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.949/) - next →: [Jeremiah 34:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.951/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 34:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.4/)