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title: Jeremiah 13:21 (JPS 1917) — Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? Who acts: pangs. 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 2 of 2

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Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

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**Who acts:** pangs · **What happens:** not take hold

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This is Jeremiah 13:21 · 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 (pangs), 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:392
# text = Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take hold** | shall | pangs |  |  |  |  | of thee; as a woman in travail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of thou=Initial\_Location |

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.391/)
2. **Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?**

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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:392` 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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