Psalms 78:56 · JPS 1917
Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;
Who acts: people, God · What happens: try, provoke, not keep, testify · To what, where: God, testimonies
This is Psalms 78:56 · 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 (people, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 tried | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 provoked | cc |
| 5 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 provoked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 High | det |
| 9 | Most | most | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 High | flat |
| 10 | High | high | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 God | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 13 kept | advmod |
| 15 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 testimonies | nmod:poss |
| 16 | testimonies | testimony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kept | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | provoke | past | people not said here | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not keep | past | people not said here | God's testimonies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testimony=Theme | ||||
| 4 | testify | God | nom testimony «communication 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
וַיְנַסּ֣וּ וַ֭יַּמְרוּ אֶת־אֱלֹהִ֣ים עֶלְי֑וֹן וְ֝עֵדוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א שָׁמָֽרוּ׃
Psalms 78:56: 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:1383 of Mova's parse database.
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