Psalms 88:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead?
Who acts: Thou · What happens: work · To what, where: wonders
This is Psalms 88:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (Thou), 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 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | aux |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 work | nsubj |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 dead | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dead | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | future | Thou | wonders | for the dead | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme for dead=Eventuality |
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
הֲלַמֵּתִ֥ים תַּעֲשֶׂה־פֶּ֑לֶא אִם־רְ֝פָאִ֗ים יָק֤וּמוּ ׀ יוֹד֬וּךָ סֶּֽלָה׃
Psalms 88:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead?
- Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1550 of Mova's parse database.
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