--- title: Jeremiah 8:19 (JPS 1917) — Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion? Who acts: you, daughter. 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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, daughter), 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:259 # text = Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion? 1 Behold behold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 off off ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Zion Zion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people | | a land | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | | the LORD | | Zion | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cry** | | the daughter of my people | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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} הִנֵּה־ק֞וֹל שַֽׁוְעַ֣ת בַּת־עַמִּ֗י מֵאֶ֙רֶץ֙ מַרְחַקִּ֔ים הַֽיהוָה֙ אֵ֣ין בְּצִיּ֔וֹן אִם־מַלְכָּ֖הּ אֵ֣ין בָּ֑הּ מַדּ֗וּעַ הִכְעִס֛וּנִי בִּפְסִלֵיהֶ֖ם בְּהַבְלֵ֥י נֵכָֽר׃ [Jeremiah 8:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.19/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion?** 2. [Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.260/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:259` 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 8:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.258/) - next →: [Jeremiah 8:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.260/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 8:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.19/)