Psalms 78:45 · JPS 1917
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Who acts: God, flies, frogs · What happens: send, devour, destroy · To what, where: swarms, streams
This is Psalms 78:45 · 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, flies, frogs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flies | case |
| 7 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swarms | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 devoured | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 devoured | nsubj |
| 10 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flies | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 devoured | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 frogs | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frogs | cc |
| 14 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swarms | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroyed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 destroyed | nsubj |
| 17 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 destroyed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | 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 | send | past | God | swarms of flies and frogs | among streams = stream | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swarm=Theme | |||
| 2 | devour | past | flies | streams = stream | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past | frogs | streams = stream | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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
יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַיֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃
Psalms 78:45: 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:1372 of Mova's parse database.
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