Psalms 72:6 · JPS 1917

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Who acts: sun, showers · What happens: come down, water · To what, where: mown grass, earth

This is Psalms 72:6 · 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 (sun, showers), 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 rain	case
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
9	mown	mown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showers	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 showers	case
13	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 water	nsubj
15	water	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 showers	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: express
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	may	sun			the mown grass		like rain; as showers; down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Location
2	water	present	showers	the earth					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination

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

יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

Psalms 72:6: 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:1202 of Mova's parse database.

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