Psalms 78:20 · JPS 1917

Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?'

Who acts: God, waters, streams · What happens: smite, gush out, overflow, give, provide · To what, where: rock, bread, flesh

This is Psalms 78:20 · 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 (God, waters, streams), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 smote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Behold	punct
3	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smote	nsubj
4	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smote	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gushed	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 gushed	mark
9	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gushed	nsubj
10	gushed	gush	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smote	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 gushed	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 overflowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 overflowed	cc
14	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 overflowed	nsubj
15	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gushed	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
18	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smote	parataxis
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
21	also	also	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 provide	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 provide	aux
25	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 provide	nsubj
26	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	conj
27	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 provide	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 people	nmod:poss
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 provide	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smote	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 smote	punct

Pragmatics

form: other
act: other
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=other, act=other, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smite	past	God	the rock		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rock=Experiencer
2	gush out	past	waters			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overflow	past	streams			tree rules
4	give	can	God	bread		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
5	provide	future	God	flesh	for God's people	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition flesh=Theme for people=Beneficiary

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

הֵ֤ן הִכָּה־צ֨וּר ׀ וַיָּז֣וּבוּ מַיִם֮ וּנְחָלִ֪ים יִ֫שְׁטֹ֥פוּ הֲגַם־לֶ֭חֶם י֣וּכַל תֵּ֑ת אִם־יָכִ֖ין שְׁאֵ֣ר לְעַמּֽוֹ׃

Psalms 78:20: 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:1347 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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