Psalms 10:8 · JPS 1917

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in secret places doth he slay the innocent; his eyes are on the watch for the helpless.

Who acts: wicked, eyes · What happens: sit, slay, be · To what, where: lurking places, innocent, secret places, watch

This is Psalms 10:8 · 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 (wicked, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sitteth	nsubj
2	sitteth	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 places	det
5	lurking	lurking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 places	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lurking	punct
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sitteth	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 villages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 villages	det
10	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 places	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 slay	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 places	case
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 places	amod
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slay	obl
15	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 slay	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slay	nsubj
17	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sitteth	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 innocent	det
19	innocent	innocent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slay	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 watch	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 watch	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 watch	cop
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 watch	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 watch	det
26	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sitteth	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 helpless	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 helpless	det
29	helpless	helpless	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watch	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sitteth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	wicked		the lurking places of the villages		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	slay	present · do-support	wicked	the innocent	secret places		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Patient
3	is	present	wicked's eyes		the watch	for the helpless	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

יֵשֵׁ֤ב ׀ בְּמַאְרַ֬ב חֲצֵרִ֗ים בַּֽ֭מִּסְתָּרִים יַהֲרֹ֣ג נָקִ֑י עֵ֝ינָ֗יו לְֽחֵלְכָ֥ה יִצְפֹּֽנוּ׃

Psalms 10:8: 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:125 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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