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title: Lamentations 3:32 (JPS 1917) — For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to… · tree and pragmatics
description: For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. Who acts: LORD. Lamentations 3:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 3:32 · JPS 1917

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For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** cause, have · **To what, where:** grief, compassion

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This is Lamentations 3:32 · 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 (LORD), 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:85
# text = For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	according	according	ADP	VBG	_	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cause** | present | LORD | grief |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition grief=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | future | LORD | compassion |  |  |  | according the multitude of LORD's mercies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=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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כִּ֣י אִם־הוֹגָ֔ה וְרִחַ֖ם כְּרֹ֥ב חֲסָדָֽיו׃

[Lamentations 3:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.32/)

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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:85` 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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