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title: Lamentations 5:21 (JPS 1917) — Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Who acts: Thou. Lamentations 5:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 5:21 · JPS 1917

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Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** turn, renew · **To what, where:** us, we

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This is Lamentations 5:21 · 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 (Thou), 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:164
# text = Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	renew	renew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **turn** | infinitive | Thou | us |  |  |  | unto Thee; LORD *vocative* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result |
| 2 | **turn** | shall · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **renew** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  | day | as old | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖ינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם׃

[Lamentations 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.21/)

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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:164` 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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