Jeremiah 38:11 · JPS 1917

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.

Who acts: Ebed melech · What happens: take, go, wear, let down · To what, where: men, house, worn clouts, clouts, Jeremiah, pit

This is Jeremiah 38:11 · 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 (Ebed melech), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
2	Ebed	Ebed	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 melech	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 melech	punct
4	melech	Melech	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 treasury	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 treasury	det
21	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
25	thence	thence	ADV	_	24 took	advmod
26	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 clouts	amod
27	clouts	clout	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rags	cc
29	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 rags	amod
30	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 clouts	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 took	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	down	down	ADV	_	33 let	compound:prt
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 cords	case
37	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 let	obl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 pit	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pit	det
40	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 Jeremiah	case
42	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ebed melech		the men		with man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
2	go	past	Ebed melech not said here			the house of the king		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
3	take	past	Ebed melech not said here	worn clouts and worn rags			thence property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clout=Theme
4	wear	participle						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	wear	participle						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	let down	infinitive	Ebed melech not said here	clouts = clout	Jeremiah	the pit	by cords	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to jeremiah=Recipient

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

וַיִּקַּ֣ח ׀ עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת־הָאֲנָשִׁ֜ים בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיָּבֹ֤א בֵית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־תַּ֣חַת הָאוֹצָ֔ר וַיִּקַּ֤ח מִשָּׁם֙ בְּלוֹיֵ֣ סְחָב֔וֹת וּבְלוֹיֵ֖ מְלָחִ֑ים וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֧ם אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ אֶל־הַבּ֖וֹר בַּחֲבָלִֽים׃

Jeremiah 38:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:1054 of Mova's parse database.

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