Psalms 62:4 · JPS 1917
How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, as a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Who acts: ye · What happens: set, slay · To what, where: salvation
This is Psalms 62:4 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 set | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slay | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 slay | mark |
| 11 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 slay | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 slay | aux |
| 13 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slay | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 16 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 14 him | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 all | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wall | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 wall | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wall | det |
| 22 | leaning | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wall | amod |
| 23 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slay | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fence | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fence | det |
| 26 | tottering | tottering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fence | amod |
| 27 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wall | appos |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=evaluate, indirect=1, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | future | ye | upon a man; long property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon man=Destination | ||||
| 2 | slay | may | ye | salvation | as a leaning wall | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
עַד־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּהֽוֹתְת֣וּ עַלאִישׁ֮ תְּרָצְּח֪וּ כֻ֫לְּכֶ֥ם כְּקִ֥יר נָט֑וּי גָּ֝דֵ֗ר הַדְּחוּיָֽה׃
Psalms 62:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1008 of Mova's parse database.
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