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title: Jeremiah 36:12 (JPS 1917) — he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and,… · tree and pragmatics
description: he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. Who acts: Micaiah, pri
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# Jeremiah 36:12 · JPS 1917

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he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

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**Who acts:** Micaiah, princes · **What happens:** go down, sit · **To what, where:** house

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This is Jeremiah 36:12 · 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 (Micaiah, princes), 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:999
# text = he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	Elishama	Elishama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Delaiah	Delaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Shemaiah	Shemaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Elnathan	Elnathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Achbor	Achbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Gemariah	Gemariah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Shaphan	Shaphan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	Zedekiah	Zedekiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Hananiah	Hananiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	62	det:predet	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go down** | past | Micaiah |  |  | the king's house |  | into the scribe's chamber; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sit** | past | all princes |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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וַיֵּ֤רֶד בֵּית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ עַל־לִשְׁכַּ֣ת הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְהִ֨נֵּה־שָׁ֔ם כָּל־הַשָּׂרִ֖ים יֽוֹשְׁבִ֑ים אֱלִישָׁמָ֣ע הַסֹּפֵ֡ר וּדְלָיָ֣הוּ בֶן־שְׁ֠מַעְיָהוּ וְאֶלְנָתָ֨ן בֶּן־עַכְבּ֜וֹר וּגְמַרְיָ֧הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֛ן וְצִדְקִיָּ֥הוּ בֶן־חֲנַנְיָ֖הוּ וְכָל־הַשָּׂרִֽים׃

[Jeremiah 36:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.12/)

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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:999` 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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