--- title: Jeremiah 31:20 (JPS 1917) — Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me? · tree and pragmatics description: Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me? Who acts: Ephraim. Jeremiah 31:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.852/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/31/) / [31:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.20/) / JPS 1 # Jeremiah 31:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me? **Who acts:** Ephraim · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** darling son This is Jeremiah 31:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (Ephraim), 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:852 # text = Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 darling darling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: none - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Ephraim | a darling son | | | | unto Me | tree rules | 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} הֲבֵן֩ יַקִּ֨יר לִ֜י אֶפְרַ֗יִם אִ֚ם יֶ֣לֶד שַׁעֲשֻׁעִ֔ים כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֤י דַבְּרִי֙ בּ֔וֹ זָכֹ֥ר אֶזְכְּרֶ֖נּוּ ע֑וֹד עַל־כֵּ֗ן הָמ֤וּ מֵעַי֙ ל֔וֹ רַחֵ֥ם אֲ‍ֽרַחֲמֶ֖נּוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס [Jeremiah 31:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.20/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me?** 2. [Is he a child that is dandled?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.853/) 3. [For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.854/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:852` 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. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 31:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.851/) - next →: [Jeremiah 31:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.853/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 31:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.20/)