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title: Lamentations 1:15 (JPS 1917) — The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin the daughter of Judah.' Who acts: Lord. Lamentations 1:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Lamentations 1:15 · JPS 1917

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The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin the daughter of Judah.'

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** set, call, crush, tread · **To what, where:** mighty men, nought, solemn assembly, young men, virgin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Lamentations 1:15 · 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), 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:17
# text = The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin the daughter of Judah.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	winepress	winepress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **set** | present · perfect | the Lord | my mighty men |  | nought |  | in the midst of me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme at nought=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | present · perfect | LORD | a solemn assembly |  |  |  | against me | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assembly=Recipient |
| 3 | **crush** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | my young men |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **tread** | present · perfect | the Lord | the virgin |  |  |  | as a winepress | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location virgin=Theme |

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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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סִלָּ֨ה כָל־אַבִּירַ֤י ׀ אֲדֹנָי֙ בְּקִרְבִּ֔י קָרָ֥א עָלַ֛י מוֹעֵ֖ד לִשְׁבֹּ֣ר בַּחוּרָ֑י גַּ֚ת דָּרַ֣ךְ אֲדֹנָ֔י לִבְתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־יְהוּדָֽה׃ס

[Lamentations 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.15/)

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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:17` 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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