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title: Jeremiah 34:9 (JPS 1917) — that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidserv… · tree and pragmatics
description: that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother; Who acts: man, none. Jeremiah 34:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 34:9 · JPS 1917

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that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother;

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**Who acts:** man, none · **What happens:** let, be, go, make · **To what, where:** manservant, Hebrew man, bondmen

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This is Jeremiah 34:9 · 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 (man, none), 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:955
# text = that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother;
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	manservant	manservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **let** | should | every man | man's manservant |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manservant=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | every man *not said here* | a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | every man |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | should | none | bondmen of king |  |  |  | of a Jew | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bondman=Product |

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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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לְ֠שַׁלַּח אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־עַבְדּ֞וֹ וְאִ֧ישׁ אֶת־שִׁפְחָת֛וֹ הָעִבְרִ֥י וְהָעִבְרִיָּ֖ה חָפְשִׁ֑ים לְבִלְתִּ֧י עֲבָד־בָּ֛ם בִּיהוּדִ֥י אָחִ֖יהוּ אִֽישׁ׃

[Jeremiah 34:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.9/)

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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:955` 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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