--- title: Jeremiah 20:15 — Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-c… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad. Who acts: man. Jeremiah 20:15 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.20.15/) [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/) / 20:15 # Jeremiah 20:15 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, bring, say, bear, make · **To what, where:** tidings, father, man child, child · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Jeremiah 20:15 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 — man — and what happens in the verse to tidings, father, man child, child, 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 הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר בִּשַּׂ֤ר אֶת־אָבִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יֻֽלַּד־לְךָ֖ בֵּ֣ן זָכָ֑ר שַׂמֵּ֖חַ שִׂמֳּחָֽהוּ׃ [Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.563/) ## 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:489 # text = אָר֣וּר הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר בִּשַּׂ֤ר אֶת־אָבִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יֻֽלַּד־לְךָ֖ בֵּ֣ן זָכָ֑ר שַׂמֵּ֖חַ שִׂמֳּחָֽהוּ׃ # verse = JER.20.15 1 אָר֣וּר אָרַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[be].cursed|Ref=JER_20:15!1|MId=o240200150011|Strong=0779|Frame=A1:240200150022;|Type=participle_passive 2-3 הָאִ֗ישׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_20:15!2|MId=o240200150021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 אִ֗ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=person|Ref=JER_20:15!2|MId=o240200150022|Strong=0376 4 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=JER_20:15!3|MId=o240200150031|Strong=0834|Type=relative 5 בִּשַּׂ֤ר בָּשַׂר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.bore.the.news|Ref=JER_20:15!4|MId=o240200150041|Strong=1319|Frame=A0:240200150022;A1:240200150061;|Type=qatal 6 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JER_20:15!5|MId=o240200150051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 7-8 אָבִי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 אָב אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obj _ Gloss=father|Ref=JER_20:15!6|MId=o240200150061|Strong=0001 8 ִי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JER_20:15!6|MId=o240200150062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 9-10 לֵאמֹ֔ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 11 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=JER_20:15!7|MId=o240200150071|Strong=3807a 10 אמֹ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 9 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=JER_20:15!7|MId=o240200150072|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:240200150022;A1:240200150081;|Type=infinitive_construct 11 יֻֽלַּד־ יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 advcl _ Gloss=he.has.been.born|Ref=JER_20:15!8|MId=o240200150081|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:240200150101;|Type=qatal|SpaceAfter=No 12-13 לְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 ל לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_20:15!9|MId=o240200150091|Strong=3807a 13 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=JER_20:15!9|MId=o240200150092|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 14 בֵּ֣ן בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=a.son|Ref=JER_20:15!10|MId=o240200150101|Strong=1121 15 זָכָ֑ר זָכָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 appos _ Gloss=a.male|Ref=JER_20:15!11|MId=o240200150111|Strong=2145|Type=adjective 16 שַׂמֵּ֖חַ שָׂמַח VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 17 obl:npmod _ Gloss=greatly.(make.rejoice)|Ref=JER_20:15!12|MId=o240200150121|Strong=8055|Type=infinitive_absolute 17-18 שִׂמֳּחָֽהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 שִׂמֳּח שָׂמַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 parataxis _ Gloss=he|Ref=JER_20:15!13|MId=o240200150131|Strong=8055|Frame=A0:240200150022;A1:240200150132;|Type=qatal 18 ָֽהוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ Gloss=made.him.rejoice|Ref=JER_20:15!13|MId=o240200150132|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=JER_20:15!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָרוּר *\[be\] cursed* | participle passive · qal | | אִישׁ *person* | | | | בִּשַּׂר *he bore the news* | qatal · piel | אִישׁ *person* | אָב *father* | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | אִישׁ *person* | יֻֽלַּד־ *he has been born* | | | | יֻֽלַּד־ *he has been born* | qatal · pual | | בֵּן *a son* | | | | שִׂמֳּח *he* | qatal · piel | אִישׁ *person* | ָֽהוּ *made him rejoice* | | | 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 גַבְרָא דְבַשַׂר יַת אַבָּא לְמֵימַר אִתְיְלִיד לָךְ בַּר דְכַר חֲדָאָה חָדְיֵהּ: 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 man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.563/) **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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