Psalms 78:19 · JPS 1917
Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Who acts: rocks, God · What happens: speak, say, prepare · To what, where: table, wilderness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 78:19 · 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 (rocks, God), 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 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 4 spoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yea | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepare | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepare | punct |
| 12 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 prepare | aux |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 prepare | nsubj |
| 14 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepare | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wilderness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wilderness | det |
| 19 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepare | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | rocks = rock | against God | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rocks = rock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prepare | can | God | a table | the wilderness | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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
וַֽיְדַבְּר֗וּ בֵּֽאלֹ֫הִ֥ים אָ֭מְרוּ הֲי֣וּכַל אֵ֑ל לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ שֻׁ֝לְחָ֗ן בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃
Psalms 78:19: 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:1346 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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