Psalms 78:63 · JPS 1917

Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.

Who acts: Fire, virgins · What happens: devour, have · To what, where: young men, marriage song

This is Psalms 78:63 · 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 (Fire, virgins), 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	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 devoured	nsubj
2	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 men	nmod:poss
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 devoured	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 virgins	nmod:poss
9	virgins	virgin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 devoured	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 song	det
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 song	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 song	punct
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 devoured	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	past	Fire	people's young men					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	have	past	people's virgins	no marriage song					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=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

בַּחוּרָ֥יו אָֽכְלָה־אֵ֑שׁ וּ֝בְתוּלֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א הוּלָּֽלוּ׃

Psalms 78:63: 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:1390 of Mova's parse database.

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