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title: Lamentations 1:14 (JPS 1917) — The yoke of my transgressions is impressed by His hand; they are kni… · tree and pragmatics
description: The yoke of my transgressions is impressed by His hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. Who acts: hand, transgressions, LORD, strength. Lamentations 1:14 in JPS 
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# Lamentations 1:14 · JPS 1917

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The yoke of my transgressions is impressed by His hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

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**Who acts:** hand, transgressions, LORD, strength, I, my · **What happens:** impress, knit together, come up, make, fail, deliver · **To what, where:** yoke, transgressions, neck, strength, me, hands

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This is Lamentations 1:14 · 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, transgressions, LORD, strength), 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:16
# text = The yoke of my transgressions is impressed by His hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	impressed	impress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	knit	knit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	against	against	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **impress** | present · passive | LORD's hand | the yoke of my transgressions |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **knit together** | present · passive |  | transgressions *= transgression* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **come up** | present · passive | transgressions *= transgression* |  |  | my neck |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon neck=Location |
| 4 | **make** | present · perfect | LORD | my strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fail** | to-infinitive | my strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **deliver** | present · perfect | the Lord | me |  | transgressions's hands |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **stand** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against whom=Location |
| 9 | **transgress** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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נִשְׂקַד֩ עֹ֨ל פְּשָׁעַ֜י בְּיָד֗וֹ יִשְׂתָּֽרְג֛וּ עָל֥וּ עַל־צַוָּארִ֖י הִכְשִׁ֣יל כֹּחִ֑י נְתָנַ֣נִי אֲדֹנָ֔י בִּידֵ֖י לֹא־אוּכַ֥ל קֽוּם׃ס

[Lamentations 1:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.14/)

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