--- title: Jeremiah 36:8 (JPS 1917) — And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the… · tree and pragmatics description: And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house. Who acts: Baruch, Jeremiah. 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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 (Baruch, Jeremiah), 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:995 # text = And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 Baruch Baruch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Neriah Neriah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 case _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 12 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 'S 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **do** | past | Baruch | | | | | accord all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **command** | past | Jeremiah | Baruch | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **read** | gerund | Baruch *not said here* | the words of the LORD | | the book | | in the LORD's house | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 5 | **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} וַיַּ֗עַשׂ בָּרוּךְ֙ בֶּן־נֵ֣רִיָּ֔ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֖הוּ יִרְמְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֑יא לִקְרֹ֥א בַסֵּ֛פֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יְהֹוָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 36:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.8/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:995` 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 36:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.994/) - next →: [Jeremiah 36:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.996/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 36:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.8/)