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title: Jeremiah 20:17 (JPS 1917) — Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. Who acts: LORD, mother, womb. Jeremiah 20:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 20:17 · JPS 1917

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Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

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**Who acts:** LORD, mother, womb · **What happens:** not slay, be · **To what, where:** me, womb, grave

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This is Jeremiah 20:17 · 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 (LORD, mother, womb), 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:565
# text = Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **slay** | past | LORD | me |  | the womb |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | would · perfect | my mother | my grave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | mother's womb |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

[Jeremiah 20:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.17/)

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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:565` 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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