--- title: Lamentations 4:15 (JPS 1917) — 'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them, 'Depart, depart, touch no… · tree and pragmatics description: 'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them, 'Depart, depart, touch not'; yea, they fled away and wandered; men said among the nations: 'They shall no more sojourn here.' Who acts: ye, men. 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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 (ye, men), 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:136 # text = 'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them, 'Depart, depart, touch not'; yea, they fled away and wandered; men said among the nations: 'They shall no more sojourn here.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Depart depart VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 3 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 5 unclean unclean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Depart depart VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 depart depart VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 yea yea INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 32 among among ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 37 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 no no ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 41 sojourn sojourn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 42 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depart** | infinitive | ye | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | men | | | | | unto adversary | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **depart** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **depart** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **flee away** | past | men *= man* | | | | | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wander** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | men | | | | | among the nations | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **sojourn** | shall | men *= man* | | | here | | | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | 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} ס֣וּרוּ טָמֵ֞א קָ֣רְאוּ לָ֗מוֹ ס֤וּרוּ ס֙וּרוּ֙ אַל־תִּגָּ֔עוּ כִּ֥י נָצ֖וּ גַּם־נָ֑עוּ אָֽמְרוּ֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם לֹ֥א יוֹסִ֖יפוּ לָגֽוּר׃ס [Lamentations 4:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:136` 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. - ← previous: [Lamentations 4:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.135/) - next →: [Lamentations 4:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.137/) - ↑ back to [Lamentations 4:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.15/)