--- title: Jeremiah 4:19 (JPS 1917) — I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the soun… · tree and pragmatics description: I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war. Who acts: I, thou, my. 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.121/) [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 5 # Jeremiah 4:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 5 of 5 I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war. **Who acts:** I, thou, my · **What happens:** not hold, hear, pacify, alarm · **To what, where:** peace, sound, war This is Jeremiah 4:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 5 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, thou, my), 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:121 # text = I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 O o INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hold** | can | I | my peace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | thou | the sound of the horn | | | | my soul *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 3 | **pacify** | | my | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 4 | **alarm** | | | war | | | | | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.118/) 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.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:121` 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.120/) - next →: [Jeremiah 4:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.122/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 4:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.19/)