Psalms 68:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?
Who acts: ye, God · What happens: look, desire · To what, where: mountain
This is Psalms 68:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, God), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 look | nsubj |
| 4 | askance | askance | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountains | punct |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 mountains | det |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | vocative |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 peaks | case |
| 9 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mountains | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mountain | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 desired | obj |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 desired | nsubj |
| 16 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 desired | aux |
| 17 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 abode | case |
| 19 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 abode | nmod:poss |
| 20 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 desired | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | ye | at the mountain; ye mountains of peaks vocative; askance property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desire | present · perfect | God | the mountain | for God's abode | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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
לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֪ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃
Psalms 68:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?
- Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1106 of Mova's parse database.
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