--- title: Jeremiah 20:14 — Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed. Who acts: mother. Jeremiah 20:14 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/20/) / 20:14 # Jeremiah 20:14 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** curse, bear, let, not bless · **To what, where:** day, I, me, soul This is Jeremiah 20:14 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — mother — and what happens in the verse to day, I, me, soul, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. אָר֣וּר הַיּ֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בּ֑וֹ י֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יְלָדַ֥תְנִי אִמִּ֖י אַל־יְהִ֥י בָרֽוּךְ׃ [Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.562/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JER:488 # text = אָר֣וּר הַיּ֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי בּ֑וֹ י֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יְלָדַ֥תְנִי אִמִּ֖י אַל־יְהִ֥י בָרֽוּךְ׃ # verse = JER.20.14 1 אָר֣וּר אָרַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[be].cursed|Ref=JER_20:14!1|MId=o240200140011|Strong=0779|Frame=A1:240200140022;|Type=participle_passive 2-3 הַיּ֔וֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_20:14!2|MId=o240200140021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 יּ֔וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=day|Ref=JER_20:14!2|MId=o240200140022|Strong=3117 4 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=when|Ref=JER_20:14!3|MId=o240200140031|Strong=0834|Type=relative 5 יֻלַּ֖דְתִּי יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QALPASSIVE|Number=Sing|Person=1 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=I.was.born|Ref=JER_20:14!4|MId=o240200140041|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:240200030111;|Type=qatal 6-7 בּ֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JER_20:14!5|MId=o240200140051|Strong=0871a 7 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=JER_20:14!5|MId=o240200140052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8 י֛וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].day|Ref=JER_20:14!6|MId=o240200140061|Strong=3117 9 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=when|Ref=JER_20:14!7|MId=o240200140071|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 יְלָדַ֥תְנִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 יְלָדַ֥ת יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 8 acl:relcl _ Gloss=she|Ref=JER_20:14!8|MId=o240200140081|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:240200140082;A0:240200140091;|Type=qatal 11 ְנִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Gloss=bore.me|Ref=JER_20:14!8|MId=o240200140082|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 12-13 אִמִּ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 אִמּ אֵם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=mother|Ref=JER_20:14!9|MId=o240200140091|Strong=0517 13 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JER_20:14!9|MId=o240200140092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 14 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JER_20:14!10|MId=o240200140101|Strong=0408|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 15 יְהִ֥י הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 16 cop _ Gloss=let.it.be|Ref=JER_20:14!11|MId=o240200140111|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:240200140061;|Type=jussive 16 בָרֽוּךְ בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ Gloss=blessed|Ref=JER_20:14!12|MId=o240200140121|Strong=1288|Frame=A1:240200140061;|Type=participle_passive|SpaceAfter=No 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=JER_20:14!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָרוּר *\[be\] cursed* | participle passive · qal | | יּוֹם *day* | | | | יֻלַּדְתִּי *I was born* | qatal · qalpassive | | | | | | יְלָדַת *she* | qatal · qal | אִמּ *mother* | ְנִי *bore me* | | | | יְהִי *let it be* | jussive · qal | יוֹם *\[the\] day* | | | | | **not** בָרֽוּךְ *blessed* | participle passive · qal | | יוֹם *\[the\] day* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} לִיט יוֹמָא דְאִיתְלֵידִית בֵּיהּ יוֹמָא דִילֵדַתְנִי בֵּיהּ אִמִי לָא יְהֵי בְרִיךְ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.562/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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