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title: Jeremiah 13:21 (JPS 1917) — What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? Who acts: thou, Judah. Jeremiah 13:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 13:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee?

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**Who acts:** thou, Judah · **What happens:** say, set, train · **To what, where:** friends, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 13:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (thou, Judah), 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:391
# text = What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
19	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	18	nmod	_	_
20	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **set** | shall | Judah | the friends |  | thee |  | as head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent friend=Theme over thou=Destination |
| 3 | **train** | present · perfect | thou | the friends |  |  |  | against thee | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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מַה־תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּֽי־יִפְקֹ֣ד עָלַ֔יִךְ וְ֠אַתְּ לִמַּ֨דְתְּ אֹתָ֥ם עָלַ֛יִךְ אַלֻּפִ֖ים לְרֹ֑אשׁ הֲל֤וֹא חֲבָלִים֙ יֹאחֱז֔וּךְ כְּמ֖וֹ אֵ֥שֶׁת לֵדָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 13:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee?**
2. [Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.392/)

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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:391` 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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