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title: Jeremiah 20:18 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? Who acts: I. Jeremiah 20:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 20:18 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, see, consume · **To what, where:** womb, labour, days, shame

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This is Jeremiah 20:18 · 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 (I), 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:566
# text = Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- 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 | **come** | past | I |  |  | the womb |  | forth, wherefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out womb=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | labour and sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer labour=Stimulus |
| 3 | **consume** | should · passive |  | my days |  | shame |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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 זֶּה֙ מֵרֶ֣חֶם יָצָ֔אתִי לִרְא֥וֹת עָמָ֖ל וְיָג֑וֹן וַיִּכְל֥וּ בְּבֹ֖שֶׁת יָמָֽי׃פ

[Jeremiah 20:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.20.18/)

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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:566` 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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