Lamentations 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Who acts: women · What happens: eat, dandle · To what, where: fruit, children, hands
This is Lamentations 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (women), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fruit | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dandled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dandled | aux:pass |
| 12 | dandled | dandle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 children | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hands | det |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dandled | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | shall | the women | women's fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dandle | present · passive | the children | the hands | tree rules |
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
רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה לְמִ֖י עוֹלַ֣לְתָּ כֹּ֑ה אִם־תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה נָשִׁ֤ים פִּרְיָם֙ עֹלֲלֵ֣י טִפֻּחִ֔ים אִם־יֵהָרֵ֛ג בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ אֲדֹנָ֖י כֹּהֵ֥ן וְנָבִֽיא׃ס
Lamentations 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- 'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus!
- Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
- Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:LAM:50 of Mova's parse database.
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