Lamentations 2:12 · JPS 1917

They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

Who acts: children, corn, mothers · What happens: say, be, swoon, pour out, bosom · To what, where: mothers, broad places, soul, bosom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Lamentations 2:12 · 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 (children, corn, mothers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mothers	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mothers	nmod:poss
5	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Where	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Where	punct
8	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	2 say	ccomp
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Where	cop
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Where	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wine	cc
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corn	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Where	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Where	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 swoon	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swoon	nsubj
17	swoon	swoon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 wounded	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wounded	det
20	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swoon	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 places	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 places	det
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 places	amod
24	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swoon	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 city	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 city	det
27	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 places	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 poured	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 poured	advmod
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 soul	nmod:poss
31	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 poured	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 poured	aux:pass
33	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 poured	compound:prt
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 bosom	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mothers	nmod:poss
37	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bosom	nmod:poss
38	'	's	PART	_	37 mothers	case
39	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 poured	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	children = child		children's mothers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
2	is	present	corn and wine				where property	tree rules
3	swoon	present	children = child			the broad places of the city	as the wounded	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	pour out	present · passive		children's soul		children's mothers's bosom		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into bosom=Destination
5	bosom		children's mothers					nom bosom «state 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

לְאִמֹּתָם֙ יֹֽאמְר֔וּ אַיֵּ֖ה דָּגָ֣ן וָיָ֑יִן בְּהִֽתְעַטְּפָ֤ם כֶּֽחָלָל֙ בִּרְחֹב֣וֹת עִ֔יר בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּ֣ךְ נַפְשָׁ֔ם אֶל־חֵ֖יק אִמֹּתָֽם׃ס

Lamentations 2:12: 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:38 of Mova's parse database.

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