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title: Lamentations 5:12 (JPS 1917) — Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not hon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured. Who acts: hand. Lamentations 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 5:12 · JPS 1917

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Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** hang up, not honour · **To what, where:** Princes, faces

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This is Lamentations 5:12 · 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 (hand), 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:155
# text = Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
1	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hanged	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang up** | present · passive | Princes's hand | Princes |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **honour** | present · passive |  | the faces of elders |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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שָׂרִים֙ בְּיָדָ֣ם נִתְל֔וּ פְּנֵ֥י זְקֵנִ֖ים לֹ֥א נֶהְדָּֽרוּ׃

[Lamentations 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.12/)

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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:155` 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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