Psalms 127:1 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: LORD, Ascents, watchman · What happens: build, labour, keep, wake · To what, where: house, vain, city

This is Psalms 127:1 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 — LORD, Ascents, watchman — and what happens in the verse to house, vain, city, 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.

שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֗וֹת לִשְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥האִם־יְהוָ֤ה ׀ לֹא־יִבְנֶ֬ה בַ֗יִת שָׁ֤וְא ׀ עָמְל֣וּ בוֹנָ֣יו בּ֑וֹ אִם־יְהוָ֥ה לֹֽא־יִשְׁמָר־עִ֝֗יר שָׁ֤וְא ׀ שָׁקַ֬ד שׁוֹמֵֽר׃

A Song of Ascents; of Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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	שִׁ֥יר	שִׁיר	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה	nsubj	the song
2	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 מַּֽעֲל֗וֹת	det	of
3	מַּֽעֲל֗וֹת	מַעֲלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	1 שִׁ֥יר	compound:smixut	the ascents
4	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	5 שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה	case	of
5	שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה	שְׁלֹמֹה	PROPN	_	root	root	Solomon
6	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	10 יִבְנֶ֬ה	mark	if
7	יְהוָ֤ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	10 יִבְנֶ֬ה	nsubj	Yahweh
8	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	7 יְהוָ֤ה	punct
9	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	10 יִבְנֶ֬ה	advmod	not
10	יִבְנֶ֬ה	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	14 עָמְל֣וּ	advcl	he will build
11	בַ֗יִת	בַּיִת	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 יִבְנֶ֬ה	obj	a house
12	שָׁ֤וְא	שָׁוְא	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 עָמְל֣וּ	obl	vanity
13	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	12 שָׁ֤וְא	punct
14	עָמְל֣וּ	עָמַל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	5 שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה	parataxis	they have toiled
15	בוֹנָ֣י	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	14 עָמְל֣וּ	nsubj	builders
16	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 בוֹנָ֣י	nmod:poss	its
17	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 ֑וֹ	case	in
18	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 עָמְל֣וּ	obl	it
19	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	22 יִשְׁמָר־	mark	if
20	יְהוָ֥ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	22 יִשְׁמָר־	nsubj	Yahweh
21	לֹֽא־	לֹא	ADV	_	22 יִשְׁמָר־	advmod	not
22	יִשְׁמָר־	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	26 שָׁקַ֬ד	advcl	he will watch over
23	עִ֝֗יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	22 יִשְׁמָר־	obj	a city
24	שָׁ֤וְא	שָׁוְא	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	26 שָׁקַ֬ד	obl	vanity
25	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	24 שָׁ֤וְא	punct
26	שָׁקַ֬ד	שָׁקַד	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	5 שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה	parataxis	he has kept awake
27	שׁוֹמֵֽר	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	26 שָׁקַ֬ד	nsubj	[the] watchman
28	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	27 שׁוֹמֵֽר	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not יִבְנֶה he will build	yiqtol · qal	יְהוָה Yahweh	בַיִת a house
עָמְלוּ they have toiled	qatal · qal	בוֹנָי builders
בוֹנָי builders	participle active · qal		ו its
not יִשְׁמָר־ he will watch over	yiqtol · qal	יְהוָה Yahweh	עִיר a city
שָׁקַד he has kept awake	qatal · qal	שׁוֹמֵֽר [the] watchman

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

שִׁירָא דְאִתְאֲמַר עַל מַסוּקִין דִתְהוֹמָא עַל יַד שְׁלֹמֹה אִין מֵימְרָא דַייָ לָא יִבְנֵי קַרְתָּא מַגָן לָעָן אַרְדִיכְלוֹי בֵּיהּ אִין מֵימְרָא דַייָ לָא נְטַר קַרְתָּא דִירוּשְׁלֵם מַגָן אִתְּעַר נָטֵיר:

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.

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:2246.

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