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title: Lamentations 2:14 (JPS 1917) — Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction. Who acts: prophets. Lamentations 2:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Lamentations 2:14 · JPS 1917

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Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.

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**Who acts:** prophets · **What happens:** see, not uncover, bring back, prophesy, burden · **To what, where:** visions, iniquity, captivity, burdens, vanity

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This is Lamentations 2:14 · 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 (prophets), 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:43
# text = Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	delusion	delusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	back	back	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	obl	_	_
32	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	seduction	seduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | Thy prophets | visions of vanity and delusion |  |  |  | for thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **uncover** | present · perfect | prophets *= prophet* | thine iniquity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | prophets *= prophet* *not said here* | thy captivity |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent captivity=Theme |
| 4 | **prophesy** | present · perfect | prophets *= prophet* *not said here* | burdens of vanity and seduction |  |  |  | for thee | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme |
| 5 | **burden** |  |  | vanity and seduction |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=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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נְבִיאַ֗יִךְ חָ֤זוּ לָךְ֙ שָׁ֣וְא וְתָפֵ֔ל וְלֹֽא־גִלּ֥וּ עַל־עֲוֺנֵ֖ךְ לְהָשִׁ֣יב שְׁבוּתֵ֑ךְ וַיֶּ֣חֱזוּ לָ֔ךְ מַשְׂא֥וֹת שָׁ֖וְא וּמַדּוּחִֽים׃ס

[Lamentations 2:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.14/)

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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:43` 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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