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title: Lamentations 2:13 (JPS 1917) — For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee? · tree and pragmatics
description: For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee? Who acts: breach, thy. Lamentations 2:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 2:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4

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For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

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**Who acts:** breach, thy · **What happens:** be, heal, breach · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Lamentations 2:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 4 of 4 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 (breach, thy), 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:42
# text = For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | thy breach |  |  |  |  | like the sea; great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **heal** | can |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 3 | **breach** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom breach «act transitive»: 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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מָֽה־אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ מָ֣ה אֲדַמֶּה־לָּ֗ךְ הַבַּת֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם מָ֤ה אַשְׁוֶה־לָּךְ֙ וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְ בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־צִיּ֑וֹן כִּֽי־גָד֥וֹל כַּיָּ֛ם שִׁבְרֵ֖ךְ מִ֥י יִרְפָּא־לָֽךְ׃ס

[Lamentations 2:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.13/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [What shall I take to witness for thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.39/)
2. [What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.40/)
3. [What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.41/)
4. **For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?**

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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:42` 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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