--- title: Lamentations 1:19 (JPS 1917) — I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine el… · tree and pragmatics description: I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine elders perished in the city, while they sought them food to refresh their souls. Who acts: I, virgins, priests. 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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 (I, virgins, priests), 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:21 # text = I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine elders perished in the city, while they sought them food to refresh their souls. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 deceived deceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 mine my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 perished perish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 refresh refresh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | for my lovers | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for lover=Recipient | | 2 | **deceive** | past | virgins *= virgin* | me | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 3 | **perish** | past | my priests and mine elders | | | the city | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **seek** | past | virgins *= virgin* | food | priests *= priest* | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **refresh** | to-infinitive | virgins *= virgin* *not said here* | virgins's souls | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | 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} קָרָ֤אתִי לַֽמְאַהֲבַי֙ הֵ֣מָּה רִמּ֔וּנִי כֹּהֲנַ֥י וּזְקֵנַ֖י בָּעִ֣יר גָּוָ֑עוּ כִּֽי־בִקְשׁ֥וּ אֹ֙כֶל֙ לָ֔מוֹ וְיָשִׁ֖יבוּ אֶת־נַפְשָֽׁם׃ס [Lamentations 1:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.19/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:21` 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. - ← previous: [Lamentations 1:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.20/) - next →: [Lamentations 1:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.22/) - ↑ back to [Lamentations 1:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.19/)