Psalms 79:2 · JPS 1917

They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Who acts: heaps · What happens: give, be · To what, where: dead bodies, food

This is Psalms 79:2 · 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 (heaps), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bodies	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bodies	amod
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 servants	case
8	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 servants	nmod:poss
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bodies	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 food	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 food	cop
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	xcomp
13	unto	unto	ADP	_	15 fowls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fowls	det
15	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 food	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 heaven	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heaven	det
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fowls	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flesh	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flesh	det
21	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fowls	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 saints	case
23	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 saints	nmod:poss
24	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flesh	nmod
25	unto	unto	ADP	_	27 beasts	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beasts	det
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flesh	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beasts	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	heaps = heap	the dead bodies of Thy servants					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	heaps = heap not said here	food				unto the fowls of the heaven	tree rules

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

נָֽתְנ֡וּ אֶת־נִבְלַ֬ת עֲבָדֶ֗יךָ מַ֭אֲכָל לְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם בְּשַׂ֥ר חֲ֝סִידֶ֗יךָ לְחַיְתוֹ־אָֽרֶץ׃

Psalms 79:2: 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:1402 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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