--- title: Jeremiah 4:19 (JPS 1917) — I writhe in pain! · tree and pragmatics description: I writhe in pain! Who acts: I. Jeremiah 4:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree 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/jps/JER.118/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/4/) / [4:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.19/) / JPS 2 # Jeremiah 4:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 5 I writhe in pain! **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** writhe · **To what, where:** pain This is Jeremiah 4:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 5 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 (I), 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:118 # text = I writhe in pain! 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 writhe writhe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **writhe** | present | I | | | pain | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location | 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} מֵעַ֣י ׀ מֵעַ֨י ׀ אוֹחִ֜ילָה קִיר֥וֹת לִבִּ֛י הֹֽמֶה־לִּ֥י לִבִּ֖י לֹ֣א אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ כִּ֣י ק֤וֹל שׁוֹפָר֙ שָׁמַ֣עַתְּ נַפְשִׁ֔י תְּרוּעַ֖ת מִלְחָמָֽה׃ [Jeremiah 4:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.19/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [My bowels, my bowels!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.117/) 2. **I writhe in pain!** 3. [The chambers of my heart!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.119/) 4. [My heart moaneth within me!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.120/) 5. [I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.121/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:118` 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 4:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.117/) - next →: [Jeremiah 4:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.119/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 4:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.19/)