Jeremiah 4:31 · JPS 1917

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands: 'Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.'

Who acts: I, anguish, daughter, Woe, soul · What happens: hear, bring forth, gasp, spread, be, faint · To what, where: voice, first child, hands, me

This is Jeremiah 4:31 · 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, anguish, daughter, Woe), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 heard	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 woman	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 travail	case
12	travail	travail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 anguish	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 anguish	det
15	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	appos
16	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 her	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 anguish	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 bringeth	nsubj
20	bringeth	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 anguish	acl:relcl
21	forth	forth	ADV	_	20 bringeth	compound:prt
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 child	nmod:poss
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 child	amod
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bringeth	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 voice	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 voice	det
27	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 daughter	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 daughter	det
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 voice	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Zion	case
32	Zion	Zion	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 daughter	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gaspeth	punct
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 gaspeth	nsubj
35	gaspeth	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 daughter	acl:relcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 breath	case
37	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gaspeth	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spreadeth	punct
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 spreadeth	nsubj
40	spreadeth	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 daughter	acl:relcl
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spreadeth	obj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct
45	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 me	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 me	cop
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 now	punct
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 me	advmod
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 fainteth	mark
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 soul	nmod:poss
53	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fainteth	nsubj
54	fainteth	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 me	advcl
55	before	before	ADP	_	57 murderers	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 murderers	det
57	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 fainteth	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I	a voice		as a woman in travail	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	bring forth	present	the anguish as woman	woman's first child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	gasp	present	the daughter of Zion			for breath	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient
4	spread	present	the daughter of Zion	Zion's hands			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
5	is a	present	Woe	me	now		tree rules
6	faint	present	my soul		before the murderers		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

כִּי֩ ק֨וֹל כְּחוֹלָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי צָרָה֙ כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔ה ק֧וֹל בַּת־צִיּ֛וֹן תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ תְּפָרֵ֣שׂ כַּפֶּ֑יהָ אֽוֹי־נָ֣א לִ֔י כִּֽי־עָיְפָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י לְהֹרְגִֽים׃פ

Jeremiah 4:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JER:134 of Mova's parse database.

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