Psalms 78:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: give, incline, teach, word · To what, where: ear, teaching, ears, mouth
This is Psalms 78:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, my), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 people | discourse |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 people | nmod:poss |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teaching | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 teaching | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 teaching | nmod:poss |
| 10 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 incline | punct |
| 12 | incline | incline | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 incline | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 incline | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | ear | my teaching | my people vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to teaching=Recipient | ||
| 2 | incline | infinitive | you not said here | your ears | to the words of my mouth | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to word=Theme | |||
| 3 | teach | my | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | word | my mouth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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
מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְאָ֫סָ֥ףהַאֲזִ֣ינָה עַ֭מִּי תּוֹרָתִ֑י הַטּ֥וּ אָ֝זְנְכֶ֗ם לְאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃
Psalms 78:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Maschil of Asaph.
- Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1328 of Mova's parse database.
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