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title: Jeremiah 15:18 (JPS 1917) — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuset… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed? Who acts: pain, wound, my. Jeremiah 15:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 15:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?

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**Who acts:** pain, wound, my · **What happens:** be, refuse, not heal, pain, wound

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This is Jeremiah 15:18 · 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 (pain, wound, my), 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:452
# text = Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	incurable	incurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	refuseth	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my pain |  |  |  |  | perpetual *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | my wound |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refuse** | present | wound |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **heal** | to-infinitive · passive | wound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **pain** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **wound** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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לָ֣מָּה הָיָ֤ה כְאֵבִי֙ נֶ֔צַח וּמַכָּתִ֖י אֲנוּשָׁ֑ה֙ מֵֽאֲנָה֙ הֵֽרָפֵ֔א הָי֨וֹ תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לִי֙ כְּמ֣וֹ אַכְזָ֔ב מַ֖יִם לֹ֥א נֶאֱמָֽנוּ׃ס

[Jeremiah 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?**
2. [Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.453/)

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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:452` 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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