Lamentations 4:3 · JPS 1917

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Who acts: jackals · What happens: draw out, give, become · To what, where: breast, suck, young ones, daughter

This is Lamentations 4:3 · 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 (jackals), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 jackals	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackals	det
3	jackals	jackal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 draw	nsubj
4	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 draw	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breast	det
7	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 draw	parataxis
11	suck	suck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 ones	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ones	nmod:poss
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 people	nmod:poss
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 daughter	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux:pass
23	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 draw	parataxis
24	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 become	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ostriches	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 ostriches	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ostriches	det
28	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 become	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 wilderness	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wilderness	det
31	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ostriches	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw out	present	the jackals	the breast			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Theme
2	give	present	jackals = jackal	suck	jackals's young ones		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent suck=Theme to one=Recipient
3	become	present · passive		the daughter of my people		like the ostriches in the wilderness; cruel property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

גַּם־תַּנִּים֙ חָ֣לְצוּ שַׁ֔ד הֵינִ֖יקוּ גּוּרֵיהֶ֑ן בַּת־עַמִּ֣י לְאַכְזָ֔ר כַּיְעֵנִ֖ים בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ס

Lamentations 4:3: 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:124 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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