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title: Jeremiah 6:24 (JPS 1917) — 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.' Who acts: We, hands, anguish. Jeremiah 6:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:24 · JPS 1917

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'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'

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**Who acts:** We, hands, anguish · **What happens:** hear, wax, take hold · **To what, where:** fame

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This is Jeremiah 6:24 · 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 (We, hands, anguish), 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:195
# text = 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wax	wax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | We | the fame |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wax** | present | our hands |  |  |  |  | feeble *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take hold** | present · perfect | anguish and pain as a woman in travail |  |  |  |  | of us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of we=Initial\_Location |

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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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שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ אֶת־שָׁמְע֖וֹ רָפ֣וּ יָדֵ֑ינוּ צָרָה֙ הֶחֱזִיקַ֔תְנוּ חִ֖יל כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 6:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.24/)

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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:195` 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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