Psalms 62:10 · JPS 1917

Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.

Who acts: Men, lies · What happens: be, lay · To what, where: vanity, lie, lies, balances

This is Psalms 62:10 · 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 (Men, lies), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vanity	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 degree	case
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 degree	amod
4	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Men	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vanity	cop
6	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lie	cc
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lie	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 degree	case
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 degree	amod
12	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanity	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 lighter	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 laid	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laid	nsubj:pass
19	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	aux:pass
20	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lighter	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 balances	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 balances	det
23	balances	balance	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 they	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lighter	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lighter	cop
27	together	together	ADV	_	28 lighter	advmod
28	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 vanity	conj
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 vanity	case
30	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lighter	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vanity	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Men of low degree	vanity and a lie			tree rules
2	is a	present	men of high degree	a lie			tree rules
3	lay a condition, not said to happen	infinitive · passive		lies = lie	the balances		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in balance=Destination
4	is	present	lies = lie			than vanity; light, together property	tree rules

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

אַ֤ךְ ׀ הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֪ב בְּנֵ֫י אִ֥ישׁ בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם לַעֲל֑וֹת הֵ֝֗מָּה מֵהֶ֥בֶל יָֽחַד׃

Psalms 62:10: 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:1014 of Mova's parse database.

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