Psalms 86:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: incline, answer, be · To what, where: ear, me
This is Psalms 86:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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), 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 | Incline | incline | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 ear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Incline | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 LORD | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 LORD | discourse |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Incline | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answer | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answer | cc |
| 9 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Incline | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 answer | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 poor | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 poor | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 poor | cop |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Incline | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 needy | cc |
| 17 | needy | needy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 poor | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Incline | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | imperative | you not said here | Thine ear | LORD vocative | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | I not said here | 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
תְּפִלָּ֗ה לְדָ֫וִ֥דהַטֵּֽה־יְהוָ֣ה אָזְנְךָ֣ עֲנֵ֑נִי כִּֽי־עָנִ֖י וְאֶבְי֣וֹן אָֽנִי׃
Psalms 86:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- A Prayer of David.
- Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1514 of Mova's parse database.
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