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title: Jeremiah 14:9 (JPS 1917) — Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save? Who acts: thou, mighty man. Jeremiah 14:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 14:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?

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**Who acts:** thou, mighty man · **What happens:** be, overcome, not save · **To what, where:** man

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This is Jeremiah 14:9 · 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, mighty man), 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:410
# text = Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | thou |  |  |  |  | as a man and a mighty man | tree rules |
| 2 | **overcome** | participle |  | a man and a mighty man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **not** **save** | can | a mighty man |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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לָ֤מָּה תִֽהְיֶה֙ כְּאִ֣ישׁ נִדְהָ֔ם כְּגִבּ֖וֹר לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לְהוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְאַתָּ֧ה בְקִרְבֵּ֣נוּ יְהוָ֗ה וְשִׁמְךָ֛ עָלֵ֥ינוּ נִקְרָ֖א אַל־תַּנִּחֵֽנוּ׃ס

[Jeremiah 14:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?**
2. [Yet Thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and Thy name is called upon us; leave us not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.411/)

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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:410` 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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