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title: Lamentations 3:43 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unspari… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly. Who acts: Thou. Lamentations 3:43 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 3:43 · JPS 1917

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Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** cover, pursue, slain · **To what, where:** us

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This is Lamentations 3:43 · 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 (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:96
# text = Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	slain	slain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	unsparingly	unsparingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cover** | present · perfect | Thou |  |  |  |  | with anger | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with anger=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | participle | Thou *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **slain** | present · perfect | Thou |  |  |  |  | unsparingly *property* | tree rules |

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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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סַכֹּ֤תָה בָאַף֙ וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ לֹ֥א חָמָֽלְתָּ׃

[Lamentations 3:43: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.43/)

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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:96` 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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