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title: Jeremiah 8:22 (JPS 1917) — Is there no balm in Gilead? · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there no balm in Gilead? Jeremiah 8:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 8:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Is there no balm in Gilead?

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** balm, Gilead

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This is Jeremiah 8:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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:263
# text = Is there no balm in Gilead?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	balm	balm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **is a** | present |  | no balm |  | Gilead; there |  |  | tree rules |

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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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הַצֳרִי֙ אֵ֣ין בְּגִלְעָ֔ד אִם־רֹפֵ֖א אֵ֣ין שָׁ֑ם כִּ֗י מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א עָֽלְתָ֔ה אֲרֻכַ֖ת בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

[Jeremiah 8:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Is there no balm in Gilead?**
2. [Is there no physician there?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.264/)
3. [Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.265/)

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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:263` 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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