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title: Jeremiah 34:22 (JPS 1917) — Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. Who acts: I, LORD, king. Jeremiah 34:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and t
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# Jeremiah 34:22 · JPS 1917

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Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD, king · **What happens:** command, say, cause, return, fight, take · **To what, where:** king, hand, cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 34:22 · 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 (I, LORD, king), 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:968
# text = Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	xcomp	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	without	without	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | I *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this city *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result |
| 5 | **fight** | shall | king |  |  |  |  | against hand | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | king *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **burn** | infinitive | king *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with fire=Instrument |
| 8 | **make** | future | I | the cities of Judah |  |  |  | without inhabitant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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הִנְנִ֨י מְצַוֶּ֜ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה וַהֲשִׁ֨בֹתִ֜ים אֶל־הָעִ֤יר הַזֹּאת֙ וְנִלְחֲמ֣וּ עָלֶ֔יהָ וּלְכָד֖וּהָ וּשְׂרָפֻ֣הָ בָאֵ֑שׁ וְאֶת־עָרֵ֧י יְהוּדָ֛ה אֶתֵּ֥ן שְׁמָמָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יֹשֵֽׁב׃פ

[Jeremiah 34:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.22/)

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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:968` 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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