Lamentations 4:7 · JPS 1917

Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire;

Who acts: princes, polishing · What happens: be, polish · To what, where: body

This is Lamentations 4:7 · 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 (princes, polishing), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 princes	nmod:poss
2	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 purer	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 purer	cop
4	purer	pure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purer	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whiter	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whiter	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whiter	cop
10	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 purer	parataxis
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 milk	case
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whiter	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ruddy	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ruddy	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ruddy	cop
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 ruddy	advmod
17	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purer	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 body	case
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruddy	obl
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 rubies	case
21	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ruddy	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sapphire	punct
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 polishing	nmod:poss
24	polishing	polishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sapphire	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sapphire	cop
26	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 sapphire	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
28	sapphire	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purer	parataxis
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 purer	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sin's princes		than snow; pure property	tree rules
2	is	past	princes = prince		than milk; white property	tree rules
3	is	past	princes = prince	body	than rubies; ruddy property	tree rules
4	is	past	princes's polishing		as sapphire	tree rules
5	polish		princes = prince			nom polishing «act transitive»: poss=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

זַכּ֤וּ נְזִירֶ֙יהָ֙ מִשֶּׁ֔לֶג צַח֖וּ מֵחָלָ֑ב אָ֤דְמוּ עֶ֙צֶם֙ מִפְּנִינִ֔ים סַפִּ֖יר גִּזְרָתָֽם׃ס

Lamentations 4:7: 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:128 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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