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title: Jeremiah 46:11 (JPS 1917) — Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no cure for thee. Who acts: you, thou, cure. Jeremiah 46:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 46:11 · JPS 1917

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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no cure for thee.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, cure · **What happens:** go up, take, use, be · **To what, where:** Gilead, balm, many medicines, vain

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This is Jeremiah 46:11 · 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 (you, thou, cure), 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:1208
# text = Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no cure for thee.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	balm	balm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
18	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Gilead |  | virgin daughter of Egypt *vocative* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | balm |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balm=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present · do-support | thou | many medicines |  | vain |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | present | no cure for thee |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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עֲלִ֤י גִלְעָד֙ וּקְחִ֣י צֳרִ֔י בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־מִצְרָ֑יִם לַשָּׁוְא֙ הִרְבֵּ֣ית רְפֻא֔וֹת תְּעָלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין לָֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 46:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.11/)

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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:1208` 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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