Psalms 64:4 · JPS 1917
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a poisoned word;
What happens: whet, aim · To what, where: tongue, arrow
This is Psalms 64:4 · 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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 whet | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 whet | aux |
| 3 | whet | whet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whet | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whet | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aimed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 aimed | cc |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 aimed | aux |
| 12 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 whet | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aimed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 word | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 17 | poisoned | poison | ADJ | _ | 18 word | amod |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrow | appos |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 whet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whet | present · perfect | workers's tongue | like a sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | aim | present · perfect | workers's arrow | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme |
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
אֲשֶׁ֤ר שָׁנְנ֣וּ כַחֶ֣רֶב לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם דָּרְכ֥וּ חִ֝צָּ֗ם דָּבָ֥ר מָֽר׃
Psalms 64:4: 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:1034 of Mova's parse database.
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