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title: Lamentations 5:6 (JPS 1917) — We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough; · tree and pragmatics
description: We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough; Who acts: We. Lamentations 5:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 5:6 · JPS 1917

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We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** give, have · **To what, where:** hand, Egypt, bread

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This is Lamentations 5:6 · 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 (We), 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:149
# text = We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | We | the hand | Egypt and Assyria |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to egypt=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ נָתַ֣נּוּ יָ֔ד אַשּׁ֖וּר לִשְׂבֹּ֥עַֽ לָֽחֶם׃

[Lamentations 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.6/)

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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:149` 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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