Lamentations 4:4 · JPS 1917

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, and none breaketh it unto them.

Who acts: tongue, young children, none · What happens: cleave, ask, break · To what, where: bread

This is Lamentations 4:4 · 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 (tongue, young children, none), 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	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaveth	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	sucking	suck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tongue	nmod
7	cleaveth	cleave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaveth	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roof	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 thirst	case
15	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaveth	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ask	nsubj
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cleaveth	parataxis
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 breaketh	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 breaketh	cc
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 breaketh	nsubj
25	breaketh	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 breaketh	obj
27	unto	unto	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 breaketh	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cleaveth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cleave	present	the tongue of the sucking child		to the roof of tongue's mouth result; for thirst	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to roof=Result
2	ask speech: ask	present	the young children	bread		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient
3	break	present	none	bread	unto jackals = jackal	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

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

דָּבַ֨ק לְשׁ֥וֹן יוֹנֵ֛ק אֶל־חכּ֖וֹבַּצָּמָ֑א עֽוֹלָלִים֙ שָׁ֣אֲלוּ לֶ֔חֶם פֹּרֵ֖שׂ אֵ֥ין לָהֶֽם׃ס

Lamentations 4:4: 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:125 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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