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title: Jeremiah 35:18 (JPS 1917) — And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the L… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have hearkened to the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you; Who acts: Jeremiah, LORD, ye. Jeremiah 35:18 in JPS 
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# Jeremiah 35:18 · JPS 1917

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And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have hearkened to the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

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**Who acts:** Jeremiah, LORD, ye · **What happens:** say, hearken, keep, do, command · **To what, where:** precepts, you, Jonadab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 35:18 · 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 (Jeremiah, LORD, ye), 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:986
# text = And unto the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have hearkened to the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rechabites	Rechabites	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jonadab	Jonadab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
43	according	accord	ADP	VBG	_	45	case	_	_
44	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	obl	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jeremiah |  |  |  |  | unto the house of the Rechabites | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hearken** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  | to the commandment of Jonadab | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | past | ye *not said here* | LORD's precepts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | participle | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **command** | past | LORD | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **command** |  |  | Jonadab |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וּלְבֵ֨ית הָרֵכָבִ֜ים אָמַ֣ר יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַ֚עַן אֲשֶׁ֣ר שְׁמַעְתֶּ֔ם עַל־מִצְוַ֖ת יְהוֹנָדָ֣ב אֲבִיכֶ֑ם וַֽתִּשְׁמְרוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתָ֔יו וַֽתַּעֲשׂ֔וּ כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֖ה אֶתְכֶֽם׃ס

[Jeremiah 35:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.18/)

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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:986` 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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