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title: Lamentations 2:19 (JPS 1917) — Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.' Who acts: you, young children. Lamentations 2:19 in JPS 1917 w
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# Lamentations 2:19 · JPS 1917

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Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.'

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**Who acts:** you, young children · **What happens:** arise, cry out, pour out, lift up, faint, begin · **To what, where:** beginning, heart, hands, watches

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This is Lamentations 2:19 · 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 (you, young children), 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:48
# text = Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.'
1	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	faint	faint	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | at the beginning of the watches; night |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beginning=Location |
| 3 | **pour out** | infinitive |  | thy heart |  |  | before the face of the Lord | like water | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 4 | **lift up** | infinitive |  | thy hands |  |  |  | toward Lord; for the life of thy young children | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme toward he=Destination |
| 5 | **faint** | present | thy young children |  |  |  |  | for hunger; at the head of every street | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at head=Stimulus |
| 6 | **begin** |  |  | the watches |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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ק֣וּמִי ׀ רֹ֣נִּי בַלַּ֗יְלָה לְרֹאשׁ֙ אַשְׁמֻר֔וֹת שִׁפְכִ֤י כַמַּ֙יִם֙ לִבֵּ֔ךְ נֹ֖כַח פְּנֵ֣י אֲדֹנָ֑י שְׂאִ֧י אֵלָ֣יו כַּפַּ֗יִךְ עַל־נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ עֽוֹלָלַ֔יִךְ הָעֲטוּפִ֥ים בְּרָעָ֖ב בְּרֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־חוּצֽוֹת׃ס

[Lamentations 2:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.19/)

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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:48` of Mova's parse database.

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