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title: Jeremiah 15:5 (JPS 1917) — For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? · tree and pragmatics
description: For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? Jeremiah 15:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 15:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?

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**What happens:** have · **To what, where:** pity

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This is Jeremiah 15:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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: 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:436
# text = For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall |  | pity |  |  |  | upon thee; Jerusalem *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |

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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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כִּ֠י מִֽי־יַחְמֹ֤ל עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּמִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑ךְ וּמִ֣י יָס֔וּר לִשְׁאֹ֥ל לְשָׁלֹ֖ם לָֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 15:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?**
2. [Or who shall bemoan thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.437/)
3. [Or who shall turn aside to ask of thy welfare?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.438/)

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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:436` 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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