Psalms 39:2 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: I · What happens: say, take, not sin, keep, be · To what, where: heed, ways, curb, mouth · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Psalms 39:2 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 — I — and what happens in the verse to heed, ways, curb, mouth, 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.

אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה דְרָכַי֮ מֵחֲט֪וֹא בִלְשׁ֫וֹנִ֥י אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה לְפִ֥י מַחְס֑וֹם בְּעֹ֖ד רָשָׁ֣ע לְנֶגְדִּֽי׃

I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'

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	אָמַ֗רְתִּי	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I said
2	אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	1 אָמַ֗רְתִּי	ccomp	I will guard
3	דְרָכ	דֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה	obj	ways
4	ַי֮	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 דְרָכ	nmod:poss	my
5	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	6 חֲט֪וֹא	case	from
6	חֲט֪וֹא	חָטָא	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה	xcomp	sinning
7	בִ	בְּ	ADP	_	8 לְשׁ֫וֹנ	case	with
8	לְשׁ֫וֹנ	לָשׁוֹן	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 חֲט֪וֹא	obl	tongue
9	ִ֥י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 לְשׁ֫וֹנ	nmod:poss	my
10	אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה	שָׁמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	2 אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה	parataxis	I will keep
11	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	12 פ	case	to
12	פ	פֶּה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה	obl	mouth
13	ִ֥י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 פ	nmod:poss	my
14	מַחְס֑וֹם	מַחְסוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה	obj	a muzzle
15	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 נֶגְדּ	case	while
16	עֹ֖ד	עֹוד	ADV	_	19 נֶגְדּ	advmod	still
17	רָשָׁ֣ע	רָשָׁע	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 נֶגְדּ	nsubj	[the] wicked
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	19 נֶגְדּ	case	[is] to
19	נֶגְדּ	נֶגֶד	NOUN	_	10 אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה	obl	before
20	ִֽי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 נֶגְדּ	nmod:poss	me
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	20 ִֽי	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	what, whom (A1)
אָמַרְתִּי I said	qatal · qal
אֶֽשְׁמְרָה I will guard	cohortative · qal	דְרָכ ways
חֲטוֹא sinning	infinitive construct · qal
אֶשְׁמְרָה I will keep	cohortative · qal	מַחְסוֹם a muzzle

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

אֲמַרֵית אֶנְטוֹר אוֹרְחִי מִלְמֶחֱטֵי בְּלִישָׁנִי אֶנְטוֹר לְפוּמִי זְמָמָא בִּדְאִית רַשִׁיעָא לְקִבְלִי:

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.

I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'

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:592.

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