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title: Jeremiah 30:6 (JPS 1917) — Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Who acts: ye, man, I. Jeremiah 30:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 30:6 · JPS 1917

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Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

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**Who acts:** ye, man, I · **What happens:** ask, see, travail, turn · **To what, where:** man, loins, faces, paleness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 30:6 · 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 (ye, man, 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:813
# text = Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	travail	travail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	paleness	paleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | ye |  |  |  | now |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **travail** | present · do-support | a man |  |  |  |  | with child | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present · do-support | I | every man |  | man's loins |  | with man's hands; a woman in travail *obl*; wherefore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **turn** | present · passive |  | all faces |  | paleness |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into paleness=Trajectory |

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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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שַׁאֲלוּ־נָ֣א וּרְא֔וּ אִם־יֹלֵ֖ד זָכָ֑ר מַדּוּעַ֩ רָאִ֨יתִי כָל־גֶּ֜בֶר יָדָ֤יו עַל־חֲלָצָיו֙ כַּיּ֣וֹלֵדָ֔ה וְנֶהֶפְכ֥וּ כָל־פָּנִ֖ים לְיֵרָקֽוֹן׃

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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:813` 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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