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title: Lamentations 3:59 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause. · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause. Who acts: Thou, my. Lamentations 3:59 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 3:59 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.

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**Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** see, judge, cause · **To what, where:** wrong, cause

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This is Lamentations 3:59 · 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 (Thou, my), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:LAM:112
# text = O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | Thou | my wrong |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrong=Stimulus |
| 2 | **judge** | infinitive | Thou | my cause |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent cause=Value |
| 3 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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רָאִ֤יתָה יְהוָה֙ עַוָּ֣תָתִ֔י שָׁפְטָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃

[Lamentations 3:59: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.59/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:112` 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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