Psalms 39:6 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: Thou, age, man · What happens: make, be · To what, where: vanity, best estate

This is Psalms 39:6 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 — Thou, age, man — and what happens in the verse to vanity, best estate, 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.

הִנֵּ֤ה טְפָח֨וֹת ׀ נָ֘תַ֤תָּה יָמַ֗י וְחֶלְדִּ֣י כְאַ֣יִן נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ אַ֥ךְ כָּֽל־הֶ֥בֶל כָּל־אָ֝דָ֗ם נִצָּ֥ב סֶֽלָה׃

Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

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	הִנֵּ֤ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	discourse	here!
2	טְפָח֨וֹת	טַפְחָה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	xcomp	handbreadths
3	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	2 טְפָח֨וֹת	punct
4	נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	נָתַן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	root	root	you have made
5	יָמ	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	obj	days
6	ַ֗י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 יָמ	nmod:poss	my
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 אַ֣יִן	cc	and
8	חֶלְדּ	חֶלֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 אַ֣יִן	nsubj	lifespan
9	ִ֣י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 חֶלְדּ	nmod:poss	my
10	כְ	כְּ	ADP	_	11 אַ֣יִן	case	[is] like
11	אַ֣יִן	אַיִן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	conj	nothing
12	נֶגְדּ	נֶגֶד	NOUN	_	11 אַ֣יִן	obl	before
13	ֶ֑ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 נֶגְדּ	nmod:poss	you
14	אַ֥ךְ	אַךְ	ADV	_	15 כָּֽל־	advmod	[is] only
15	כָּֽל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	parataxis	all
16	הֶ֥בֶל	הֶבֶל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 כָּֽל־	compound:smixut	vanity
17	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 כָּֽל־	nsubj	all
18	אָ֝דָ֗ם	אָדָם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 כָּל־	compound:smixut	humankind
19	נִצָּ֥ב	נָצַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing	18 אָ֝דָ֗ם	nmod	[which] stands
20	סֶֽלָה	סֶלָה	INTJ	_	4 נָ֘תַ֤תָּה	parataxis	Selah
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	20 סֶֽלָה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
not נָתַתָּה you have made	qatal · qal		יָמ days
נִצָּב [which] stands	participle active · niphal	אָדָם humankind

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

קַלִילִין סַדַרְתָּא יוֹמַי וְגוּשְׁמֵי כִלְמָא לְקִבְלָךְ בְּרַם כּוֹלָא לִלְמָא חֲשִׁיבִין בְּרַם כּוּלְהוֹן צַדִיקַיָא קַיָמִין לְחַיֵי עָלְמָא:

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.

Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

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:596.

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