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title: Lamentations 2:20 (JPS 1917) — 'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus! · tree and pragmatics
description: 'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus! Who acts: you, Thou. Lamentations 2:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus!

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**Who acts:** you, Thou · **What happens:** see, consider, do

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This is Lamentations 2:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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, Thou), 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:49
# text = 'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obl	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **consider** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | Thou |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה לְמִ֖י עוֹלַ֣לְתָּ כֹּ֑ה אִם־תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה נָשִׁ֤ים פִּרְיָם֙ עֹלֲלֵ֣י טִפֻּחִ֔ים אִם־יֵהָרֵ֛ג בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ אֲדֹנָ֖י כֹּהֵ֥ן וְנָבִֽיא׃ס

[Lamentations 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus!**
2. [Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.50/)
3. [Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.51/)

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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:49` 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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