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title: Lamentations 1:13 (JPS 1917) — From on high hath He sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth agai… · tree and pragmatics
description: From on high hath He sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate and faint all the day. Who acts: LORD, fire. Lamentations 1:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 1:13 · JPS 1917

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From on high hath He sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

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**Who acts:** LORD, fire · **What happens:** send, prevail, spread, turn back, make · **To what, where:** fire, bones, net, me

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This is Lamentations 1:13 · 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 (LORD, fire), 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:15
# text = From on high hath He sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	high	high	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
4	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	prevaileth	prevail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · perfect | LORD | fire |  | my bones |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from high=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **prevail** | present | fire |  |  |  |  | against bones *= bone* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against they=Location |
| 3 | **spread** | present · perfect | LORD | a net |  |  |  | for my feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme |
| 4 | **turn back** | present · perfect | LORD | me |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present · perfect | LORD | me |  |  | day | desolate *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |

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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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מִמָּר֛וֹם שָֽׁלַח־אֵ֥שׁ בְּעַצְמֹתַ֖י וַיִּרְדֶּ֑נָּה פָּרַ֨שׂ רֶ֤שֶׁת לְרַגְלַי֙ הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי אָח֔וֹר נְתָנַ֙נִי֙ שֹֽׁמֵמָ֔ה כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם דָּוָֽה׃ס

[Lamentations 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.13/)

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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:15` of Mova's parse database.

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