Lamentations 1:19 · JPS 1917

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine elders perished in the city, while they sought them food to refresh their souls.

Who acts: I, virgins, priests · What happens: call, deceive, perish, seek, refresh · To what, where: me, city, food, priests, souls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Lamentations 1:19 · 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 (I, virgins, priests), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 lovers	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lovers	nmod:poss
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deceived	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 deceived	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deceived	nsubj
9	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 deceived	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 perished	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 priests	nmod:poss
13	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 perished	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 elders	cc
15	mine	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 elders	nmod:poss
16	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 priests	conj
17	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 perished	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sought	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 sought	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sought	nsubj
24	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 perished	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sought	iobj
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sought	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 refresh	mark
28	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sought	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 souls	nmod:poss
30	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 refresh	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	I				for my lovers	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for lover=Recipient
2	deceive	past	virgins = virgin	me				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	perish	past	my priests and mine elders			the city		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	seek	past	virgins = virgin	food	priests = priest			tree rules
5	refresh	to-infinitive	virgins = virgin not said here	virgins's souls				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer

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

קָרָ֤אתִי לַֽמְאַהֲבַי֙ הֵ֣מָּה רִמּ֔וּנִי כֹּהֲנַ֥י וּזְקֵנַ֖י בָּעִ֣יר גָּוָ֑עוּ כִּֽי־בִקְשׁ֥וּ אֹ֙כֶל֙ לָ֔מוֹ וְיָשִׁ֖יבוּ אֶת־נַפְשָֽׁם׃ס

Lamentations 1:19: 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:21 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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