Lamentations 4:17 · JPS 1917
As for us, our eyes do yet fail for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Who acts: eyes, we, nation, our · What happens: fail, watch, not save, help · To what, where: watching
This is Lamentations 4:17 · 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 (eyes, we, nation, our), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 us | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fail | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 us | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fail | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fail | aux |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 fail | advmod |
| 9 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 help | amod |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fail | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 watched | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 watching | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 watching | nmod:poss |
| 17 | watching | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watched | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 watched | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 watched | aux |
| 20 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fail | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 nation | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 nation | det |
| 23 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watched | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 save | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 save | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 save | advmod |
| 27 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 nation | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · do-support | our eyes | yet | as us; for our vain help | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | watch | present · perfect | we | our watching | for a nation | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in watch=Location for nation=Theme | |||
| 3 | not save | could | a nation | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | our | nom help «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
עוֹדֵ֙ינוּ֙ תִּכְלֶ֣ינָה עֵינֵ֔ינוּ אֶל־עֶזְרָתֵ֖נוּ הָ֑בֶל בְּצִפִּיָּתֵ֣נוּ צִפִּ֔ינוּ אֶל־גּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א יוֹשִֽׁעַ׃ס
Lamentations 4:17: 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:138 of Mova's parse database.
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