Psalms 116:3 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: cords, straits, I · What happens: compass, get, find · To what, where: me, hold, trouble

This is Psalms 116:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — cords, straits, I — and what happens in the verse to me, hold, trouble, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

אֲפָפ֤וּנִי ׀ חֶבְלֵי־מָ֗וֶת וּמְצָרֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל מְצָא֑וּנִי צָרָ֖ה וְיָג֣וֹן אֶמְצָֽא׃

The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	אֲפָפ֤וּ	אָפַף	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they
2	נִי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 אֲפָפ֤וּ	obj	encompassed me
3	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	2 נִי	punct
4	חֶבְלֵי־	חֶבֶל	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 אֲפָפ֤וּ	nsubj	[the] cords
5	מָ֗וֶת	מָוֶת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 חֶבְלֵי־	compound:smixut	of death
6	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 מְצָא֑וּ	cc	and
7	מְצָרֵ֣י	מֵצַר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 מְצָא֑וּ	nsubj	the distresses
8	שְׁא֣וֹל	שְׁאוֹל	PROPN	_	7 מְצָרֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Sheol
9	מְצָא֑וּ	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	1 אֲפָפ֤וּ	conj	they
10	נִי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 מְצָא֑וּ	obj	found me
11	צָרָ֖ה	צָרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 אֶמְצָֽא	obj	trouble
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 יָג֣וֹן	cc	and
13	יָג֣וֹן	יָגוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 צָרָ֖ה	conj	sorrow
14	אֶמְצָֽא	מָצָא	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	1 אֲפָפ֤וּ	parataxis	I found
15	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	14 אֶמְצָֽא	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
אֲפָפוּ they	qatal · qal	חֶבְלֵי־ [the] cords	נִי encompassed me
מְצָאוּ they	qatal · qal	מְצָרֵי the distresses	נִי found me
אֶמְצָֽא I found	yiqtol · qal		צָרָה trouble + יָגוֹן sorrow

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

The Targum

אַקִיפוּ יָתִי מְרָעֵי מוֹתָא וְעִיקְתִין דְשֵׁיוֹל אַשְׁכְּחוּנִי עִיקְתָא וְדָבוֹנָא אֶשְׁכָּח:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:PSA:1975.

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