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title: Jeremiah 20:15 (JPS 1917) — Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad. Who acts: man. Jeremiah 20:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 20:15 · JPS 1917

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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, bring, say, bear, make · **To what, where:** tidings, father, man child, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 20:15 · 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 (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:563
# text = Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.
1	Cursed	curse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
15	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | the man |  |  |  |  | curse *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the man | tidings | my father |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme to father=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bear** | present · passive |  | a man child |  |  |  | unto thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the man *not said here* | child |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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אָר֣וּר הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר בִּשַּׂ֤ר אֶת־אָבִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר יֻֽלַּד־לְךָ֖ בֵּ֣ן זָכָ֑ר שַׂמֵּ֖חַ שִׂמֳּחָֽהוּ׃

[Jeremiah 20:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.15/)

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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:563` 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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