Lamentations 4:2 · JPS 1917
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Who acts: hands · What happens: esteem, work · To what, where: precious sons
This is Lamentations 4:2 · 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 (hands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 2 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sons | amod |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Zion | case |
| 5 | Zion | Zion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sons | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 comparable | punct |
| 7 | comparable | comparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sons | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comparable | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sons | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 pitchers | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 esteemed | aux:pass |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 pitchers | case |
| 17 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pitchers | amod |
| 18 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 esteemed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 work | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pitchers | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hands | det |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 work | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 potter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 potter | det |
| 27 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hands | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 esteemed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | esteem | present · passive | the precious sons of Zion | as earthen pitchers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | work | the hands of the potter | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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
בְּנֵ֤י צִיּוֹן֙ הַיְקָרִ֔ים הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑ז אֵיכָ֤ה נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙ לְנִבְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶשׂ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יְדֵ֥י יוֹצֵֽר׃ס
Lamentations 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:LAM:123 of Mova's parse database.
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