Lamentations 3:30 · JPS 1917
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him, let him be filled full with reproach.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: let, give, smite, fill · To what, where: man, cheek
This is Lamentations 3:30 · 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 (you, man), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 smiteth | nsubj |
| 9 | smiteth | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smiteth | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 filled | aux:pass |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 let | xcomp |
| 16 | full | full | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 filled | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 reproach | case |
| 18 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | man not said here | man's cheek | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | smite | present | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive · passive | man not said here | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
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
יִתֵּ֧ן לְמַכֵּ֛הוּ לֶ֖חִי יִשְׂבַּ֥ע בְּחֶרְפָּֽה׃ס
Lamentations 3:30: 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:83 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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