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title: Jeremiah 14:6 (JPS 1917) — And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like j… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. Who acts: wild asses, asses, eyes, herbage. Jeremiah 14:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 14:6 · JPS 1917

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And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

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**Who acts:** wild asses, asses, eyes, herbage · **What happens:** stand, gasp, fail, be · **To what, where:** high hills

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This is Jeremiah 14:6 · JPS 1917 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 (wild asses, asses, eyes, herbage), 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:407
# text = And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gasp	gasp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	herbage	herbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the wild asses |  |  | the high hills |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 2 | **gasp** | present | asses *= ass* |  |  |  |  | for air; like jackals | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for air=Recipient |
| 3 | **fail** | present | asses's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | no herbage |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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וּפְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ ר֖וּחַ כַּתַּנִּ֑ים כָּל֥וּ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם כִּי־אֵ֥ין עֵֽשֶׂב׃

[Jeremiah 14:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.6/)

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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:407` 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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