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title: Jeremiah 8:22 (JPS 1917) — Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? · tree and pragmatics
description: Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 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 3 of 3

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Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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**What happens:** not recover · **To what, where:** health

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This is Jeremiah 8:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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:265
# text = Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
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	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=q, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recover** | present · passive |  | the health of the daughter of my people |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.263/)
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?**

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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:265` 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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