Psalms 73:13 · JPS 1917

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

Who acts: I · What happens: cleanse, wash · To what, where: heart, vain, hands, innocency

This is Psalms 73:13 · 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 (I), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 cleansed	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 vain	case
3	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cleansed	obl
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cleansed	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cleansed	nsubj
6	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleansed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 washed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 washed	cc
11	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cleansed	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 washed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 innocency	case
15	innocency	innocency	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 cleansed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cleanse	present · perfect	I	my heart		vain		surely property	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	wash	past	I not said here	my hands		innocency			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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

אַךְ־רִ֭יק זִכִּ֣יתִי לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃

Psalms 73:13: 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:1232 of Mova's parse database.

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