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title: Lamentations 1:20 (JPS 1917) — Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death. · tree and pragmatics
description: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death. Who acts: sword, like. Lamentations 1:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 1:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death.

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**Who acts:** sword, like · **What happens:** bereave, be · **To what, where:** home

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This is Lamentations 1:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (sword, like), 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:23
# text = Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death.
1	Abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bereaveth	bereave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	like	like	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bereave** | present | the sword |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | the like of death |  |  | home; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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רְאֵ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה כִּֽי־צַר־לִי֙ מֵעַ֣י חֳמַרְמָ֔רוּ נֶהְפַּ֤ךְ לִבִּי֙ בְּקִרְבִּ֔י כִּ֥י מָר֖וֹ מָרִ֑יתִי מִח֥וּץ שִׁכְּלָה־חֶ֖רֶב בַּבַּ֥יִת כַּמָּֽוֶת׃ס

[Lamentations 1:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, mine inwards burn; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.22/)
2. **Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death.**

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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:23` 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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