Psalms 13:4 · JPS 1917
Behold Thou, and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Who acts: Thou, I, death · What happens: behold, answer, lighten, sleep · To what, where: me, eyes, sleep
This is Psalms 13:4 · 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 (Thou, I, death), 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 | Behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Behold | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Behold | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 LORD | punct |
| 8 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 LORD | discourse |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | vocative |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 God | nmod:poss |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 LORD | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighten | punct |
| 13 | lighten | lighten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Behold | parataxis |
| 14 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lighten | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 17 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nsubj |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lighten | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sleep | det |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sleep | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighten | 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 | behold | infinitive | Thou | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | Thou not said here | me | LORD vocative | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | lighten | infinitive | mine eyes | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sleep | present | I | the sleep of death | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | death | nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=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
הַבִּ֣יטָֽה עֲ֭נֵנִי יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑י הָאִ֥ירָה עֵ֝ינַ֗י פֶּן־אִישַׁ֥ן הַמָּֽוֶת׃
Psalms 13:4: 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:161 of Mova's parse database.
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