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title: Lamentations 3:63 (JPS 1917) — Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. Who acts: Thou, I, lips. Lamentations 3:63 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 3:63 · JPS 1917

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Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, lips · **What happens:** behold, be, rise · **To what, where:** sitting, song

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This is Lamentations 3:63 · 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, I, lips), 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:116
# text = Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
1	Behold	behold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sitting	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rising	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | infinitive | Thou | lips's sitting and lips's rising |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | lips's song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** |  | lips *= lip* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: 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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שִׁבְתָּ֤ם וְקִֽימָתָם֙ הַבִּ֔יטָה אֲנִ֖י מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ס

[Lamentations 3:63: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.63/)

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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:116` 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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