Psalms 78:38 · JPS 1917
But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath.
Who acts: God · What happens: be, forgive, not destroy, turn away, not stir up, anger · To what, where: iniquity, anger, wrath
This is Psalms 78:38 · 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgiveth | cc |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgiveth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forgiveth | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 compassion | case |
| 7 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgiveth | punct |
| 9 | forgiveth | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | iniquity | iniquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgiveth | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyeth | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 destroyeth | cc |
| 13 | destroyeth | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgiveth | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 destroyeth | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 turn | punct |
| 16 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 23 turn | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yea | punct |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turn | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 turn | aux |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 turn | nsubj |
| 23 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgiveth | conj |
| 24 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 anger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turn | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 turn | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stir | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stir | cc |
| 29 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stir | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 stir | advmod |
| 31 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 turn | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 stir | compound:prt |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 wrath | det:predet |
| 34 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stir | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgiveth | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | God not said here | of compassion; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forgive | present | God | iniquity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not destroy | present | God not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn away | present · do-support | God | God's anger | time | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | ||
| 5 | not stir up | present · do-support | God not said here | God's wrath | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wrath=Patient | ||||
| 6 | anger | God | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
וְה֤וּא רַח֨וּם ׀ יְכַפֵּ֥ר עָוֺן֮ וְֽלֹא־יַ֫שְׁחִ֥ית וְ֭הִרְבָּה לְהָשִׁ֣יב אַפּ֑וֹ וְלֹֽא־יָ֝עִיר כָּל־חֲמָתֽוֹ׃
Psalms 78:38: 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:1365 of Mova's parse database.
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