Psalms 78:23 · JPS 1917
And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
Who acts: God · What happens: command, open · To what, where: skies, doors · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 78:23 · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 commanded | cc |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skies | det |
| 5 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | above | above | ADV | _ | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doors | det |
| 11 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 opened | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doors | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | God | the skies | above property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent sky=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | open | past | God not said here | the doors of heaven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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
וַיְצַ֣ו שְׁחָקִ֣ים מִמָּ֑עַל וְדַלְתֵ֖י שָׁמַ֣יִם פָּתָֽח׃
Psalms 78:23: 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:1350 of Mova's parse database.
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