Psalms 78:39 · JPS 1917
So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Who acts: God, streams, wind · What happens: remember, be, pass away, not come · To what, where: flesh
This is Psalms 78:39 · 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, streams, wind), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 flesh | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flesh | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flesh | cop |
| 7 | but | but | ADV | _ | 8 flesh | advmod |
| 8 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wind | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flesh | appos |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 passeth | nsubj |
| 13 | passeth | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wind | acl:relcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 passeth | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cometh | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cometh | cc |
| 17 | cometh | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 passeth | conj |
| 18 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 17 cometh | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 cometh | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | God | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | streams = stream | flesh | but property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pass away | present | a wind | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not come | present | a wind not said here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
וַ֭יִּזְכֹּר כִּי־בָשָׂ֣ר הֵ֑מָּה ר֥וּחַ ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ וְלֹ֣א יָשֽׁוּב׃
Psalms 78:39: 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:1366 of Mova's parse database.
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