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title: Jeremiah 30:15 (JPS 1917) — Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? · tree and pragmatics
description: Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? Who acts: thou, pain, thy. Jeremiah 30:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 30:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?

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**Who acts:** thou, pain, thy · **What happens:** cry, be, hurt, pain

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This is Jeremiah 30:15 · 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 (thou, pain, thy), 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:822
# text = Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	criest	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	incurable	incurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | for thy hurt | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for hurt=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | thy pain |  |  |  |  | incurable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **pain** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «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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מַה־תִּזְעַק֙ עַל־שִׁבְרֵ֔ךְ אָנ֖וּשׁ מַכְאֹבֵ֑ךְ עַ֣ל ׀ רֹ֣ב עֲוֺנֵ֗ךְ עָֽצְמוּ֙ חַטֹּאתַ֔יִךְ עָשִׂ֥יתִי אֵ֖לֶּה לָֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 30:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?**
2. [For the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.823/)

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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:822` 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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