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title: Jeremiah 10:19 (JPS 1917) — My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I mus… · tree and pragmatics
description: My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.' Who acts: wound, I, This, My. Jeremiah 10:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 10:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'

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**Who acts:** wound, I, This, My · **What happens:** be, say, bear, wound · **To what, where:** sickness, wound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 10:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wound, I, This, My), 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:318
# text = My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
11	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	but	but	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- 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** | present | My wound |  |  |  |  | grievous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | This | a sickness |  |  |  | but *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | must | I | wound |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **wound** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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א֥וֹי לִי֙ עַל־שִׁבְרִ֔י נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתִ֑י וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי אַ֛ךְ זֶ֥ה חֳלִ֖י וְאֶשָּׂאֶֽנּוּ׃

[Jeremiah 10:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Woe is me for my hurt!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.317/)
2. **My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'**

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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:318` 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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