Psalms 74:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3
Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever?
Who acts: Thou · What happens: cast off · To what, where: us
This is Psalms 74:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (Thou), 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 | 8 cast | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 God | discourse |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cast | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 God | punct |
| 6 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cast | aux |
| 7 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 cast | nsubj |
| 8 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cast | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cast | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 cast | advmod |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | _ | 11 for | fixed |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast off | present · perfect | Thou | us | God vocative | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Product |
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
מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְאָ֫סָ֥ףלָמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים זָנַ֣חְתָּ לָנֶ֑צַח יֶעְשַׁ֥ן אַ֝פְּךָ֗ בְּצֹ֣אן מַרְעִיתֶֽךָ׃
Psalms 74:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Maschil of Asaph.
- Why, O God, hast Thou cast us off for ever?
- Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1251 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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