Psalms 2:8 · JPS 1917
Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession.
Who acts: you, I, thine, thy · What happens: ask, give, inherit, possess · To what, where: nations
This is Psalms 2:8 · 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 (you, I, thine, thy), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Me | case |
| 3 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nations | det |
| 10 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 inheritance | case |
| 12 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ends | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ends | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ends | det |
| 17 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nations | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ends | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 possession | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 possession | nmod:poss |
| 23 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ends | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | of Me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | the nations and the ends of the earth for thy possession | for thine inheritance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nation=Theme for inheritance=Asset | |||
| 3 | inherit | thine | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | possess | thy | nom possession «act transitive»: 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
שְׁאַ֤ל מִמֶּ֗נִּי וְאֶתְּנָ֣ה ג֭וֹיִם נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָ וַ֝אֲחֻזָּתְךָ֗ אַפְסֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃
Psalms 2:8: 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:14 of Mova's parse database.
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