Psalms 137:3 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: harps, tormentors, Zion · What happens: lead, ask, sing, word · To what, where: us, words, mirth, one, song

This is Psalms 137:3 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 — harps, tormentors, Zion — and what happens in the verse to us, words, mirth, one, song, 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.

כִּ֤י שָׁ֨ם שְֽׁאֵל֪וּנוּ שׁוֹבֵ֡ינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁ֭יר וְתוֹלָלֵ֣ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֑ה שִׁ֥ירוּ לָ֝נ֗וּ מִשִּׁ֥יר צִיּֽוֹן׃

For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'

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	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	mark	(dm)
2	שָׁ֨ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	advmod	there
3	שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they
4	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	obj	asked us
5	שׁוֹבֵ֡י	שָׁבָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	nsubj	captors
6	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 שׁוֹבֵ֡י	nmod:poss	our
7	דִּבְרֵי־	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	xcomp	words
8	שִׁ֭יר	שִׁיר	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 דִּבְרֵי־	compound:smixut	of a song
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 תוֹלָלֵ֣י	cc	and
10	תוֹלָלֵ֣י	תּוֹלָל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	conj	mockers
11	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 תוֹלָלֵ֣י	nmod:poss	our
12	שִׂמְחָ֑ה	שִׂמְחָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 תוֹלָלֵ֣י	xcomp	gladness
13	שִׁ֥ירוּ	שִׁיר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=2	3 שְֽׁאֵל֪וּ	ccomp	sing
14	לָ֝	לְ	ADP	_	15 נ֗וּ	case	for
15	נ֗וּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 שִׁ֥ירוּ	obl	us
16	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	17 שִּׁ֥יר	case	one
17	שִּׁ֥יר	שִׁיר	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 שִׁ֥ירוּ	obl	of the song[s]
18	צִיּֽוֹן	צִיּוֹן	PROPN	_	17 שִּׁ֥יר	compound:smixut	of Zion
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 צִיּֽוֹן	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)
שְֽׁאֵלוּ they	qatal · qal	שׁוֹבֵי captors	דִּבְרֵי־ words	נוּ asked us
שׁוֹבֵי captors	participle active · qal		נוּ our
שִׁירוּ sing	imperative · qal

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

אֲרוּם תַּמָן שַׁיְלוּ יָתָנָא בַּבְלָאֵי דִשְׁבוֹי יָתָנָא לְמֵימַר מִלִין דְשִׁירַיָא וּבָזְזָנָא עַל עֲסַק חֶדְוָא אָמְרִין שְׁבַחוּ לָנָא מִן שִׁירָתָא דַהֲוֵיתוּן אָמְרִין בְּצִיוֹן:

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.

For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'

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:2349.

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