Psalms 54:5 תְּהִלִּים

Who acts: violent men, men · What happens: rise up, seek, not set · To what, where: strangers, God

This is Psalms 54:5 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 — violent men, men — and what happens in the verse to strangers, God, 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 זָרִ֨ים ׀ קָ֤מוּ עָלַ֗י וְֽ֭עָרִיצִים בִּקְשׁ֣וּ נַפְשִׁ֑י לֹ֤א שָׂ֨מוּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לְנֶגְדָּ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them.

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	_	4 קָ֤מוּ	mark	(dm)
2	זָרִ֨ים	זָר	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 קָ֤מוּ	nsubj	strangers
3	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	2 זָרִ֨ים	punct
4	קָ֤מוּ	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they have risen up
5	עָל	עַל	ADP	_	6 ַ֗י	case	on
6	ַ֗י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 קָ֤מוּ	obl	me
7	וְֽ֭	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 בִּקְשׁ֣וּ	cc	and
8	עָרִיצִים	עָרִיץ	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 בִּקְשׁ֣וּ	nsubj	ruthless [people]
9	בִּקְשׁ֣וּ	בָּקַשׁ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	4 קָ֤מוּ	conj	they have sought
10	נַפְשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 בִּקְשׁ֣וּ	obj	life
11	ִ֑י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 נַפְשׁ	nmod:poss	my
12	לֹ֤א	לֹא	ADV	_	13 שָׂ֨מוּ	advmod	not
13	שָׂ֨מוּ	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	4 קָ֤מוּ	parataxis	they have set
14	אֱלֹהִ֖ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 שָׂ֨מוּ	obj	God
15	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	16 נֶגְדּ	case	to
16	נֶגְדּ	נֶגֶד	NOUN	_	13 שָׂ֨מוּ	obl	before
17	ָ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 נֶגְדּ	nmod:poss	themselves
18	סֶֽלָה	סֶלָה	INTJ	_	4 קָ֤מוּ	parataxis	Selah
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 סֶֽלָה	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
קָמוּ they have risen up	qatal · qal	זָרִים strangers
בִּקְשׁוּ they have sought	qatal · piel	עָרִיצִים ruthless [people]	נַפְשׁ life
not שָׂמוּ they have set	qatal · qal	זָרִים strangers + עָרִיצִים ruthless [people]	אֱלֹהִים God

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 זְדוֹנִין קָמוּ עֲלַי וַעֲלִימִין תְּבַעוּ נַפְשִׁי לָא שַׁווּ אֱלָהָא לְקִבְלֵיהוֹן לְעָלְמִין:

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 strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them.

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:823.

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