--- title: Lamentations 1:12 (JPS 1917) — Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which is don… · tree and pragmatics description: Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. Who acts: you, pain, LORD, my. 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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 (you, pain, LORD, 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:14 # text = Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. 1 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 be be VERB VBP Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 unto unto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 unto unto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 afflicted afflict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl:relcl _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any pain like my pain | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present · passive | | my pain | | | | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **afflict** | present · perfect | the LORD | me | | | day | wherewith *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 5 | **pain** | | my | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **anger** | | LORD | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} ל֣וֹא אֲלֵיכֶם֮ כָּל־עֹ֣בְרֵי דֶרֶךְ֒ הַבִּ֣יטוּ וּרְא֗וּ אִם־יֵ֤שׁ מַכְאוֹב֙ כְּמַכְאֹבִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר עוֹלַ֖ל לִ֑י אֲשֶׁר֙ הוֹגָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּי֖וֹם חֲר֥וֹן אַפּֽוֹ׃ס [Lamentations 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.12/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. ['Let it not come unto you, all ye that pass by!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.13/) 2. **Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:14` 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 1:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.13/) - next →: [Lamentations 1:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.15/) - ↑ back to [Lamentations 1:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.12/)