Psalms 88:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
LORD, why castest Thou off my soul?
Who acts: Thou · What happens: cast off · To what, where: soul
This is Psalms 88:15 · 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 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 castest | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 LORD | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 castest | advmod |
| 4 | castest | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 castest | nsubj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 castest | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 soul | nmod:poss |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 castest | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 castest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-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 | cast off | present | Thou | my soul | LORD vocative | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Product |
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
לָמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּזְנַ֣ח נַפְשִׁ֑י תַּסְתִּ֖יר פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃
Psalms 88:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- LORD, why castest Thou off my soul?
- Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:1555 of Mova's parse database.
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