--- title: Lamentations 3:38 (JPS 1917) — Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? · tree and pragmatics description: Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? Who acts: evil. Lamentations 3:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Lamentations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM/3/) / [3:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.38/) / JPS 1 # Lamentations 3:38 · JPS 1917 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? **Who acts:** evil · **What happens:** not proceed · **To what, where:** mouth This is Lamentations 3:38 · 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 (evil), 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:91 # text = Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? 1 Out out ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 High High PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 proceedeth proceed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **proceed** | present | evil | | | the mouth of the High | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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} מִפִּ֤י עֶלְיוֹן֙ לֹ֣א תֵצֵ֔א הָרָע֖וֹת וְהַטּֽוֹב׃ [Lamentations 3:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.38/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:91` 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. - ← previous: [Lamentations 3:37 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.90/) - next →: [Lamentations 3:39 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.92/) - ↑ back to [Lamentations 3:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.38/)