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title: Jeremiah 8:21 (JPS 1917) — For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish;… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish; I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me. Who acts: I, appalment, daughter. Jeremiah 8:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 8:21 · JPS 1917

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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish; I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.

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**Who acts:** I, appalment, daughter · **What happens:** seize, be, take hold, hurt · **To what, where:** I

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This is Jeremiah 8:21 · 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 (I, appalment, 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:262
# text = For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish; I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	appalment	appalment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
23	hold	hold	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | for the hurt of the daughter of my people; with anguish | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for hurt=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take hold** | present · perfect | appalment |  |  |  |  | on me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination |
| 4 | **hurt** |  | the daughter of my people |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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עַל־שֶׁ֥בֶר בַּת־עַמִּ֖י הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּי קָדַ֕רְתִּי שַׁמָּ֖ה הֶחֱזִקָֽתְנִי׃

[Jeremiah 8:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.21/)

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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:262` 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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