Psalms 14:2 · JPS 1917

The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.

Who acts: LORD, man · What happens: look, see, be, seek

This is Psalms 14:2 · 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 (LORD, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 LORD	det
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 heaven	case
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 children	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	advcl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	there	there	PRON	_	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 were	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 understanding	case
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seek	punct
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 seek	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seek	aux
25	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 man	acl:relcl
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 God	case
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seek	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the LORD			upon the children of men; from heaven; forth property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heaven=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the LORD not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be a condition, not said to happen	past	any man of understanding	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	past · do-support	any man of understanding		after God		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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

יְֽהוָ֗ה מִשָּׁמַיִם֮ הִשְׁקִ֪יף עַֽל־בְּנֵי־אָ֫דָ֥ם לִ֭רְאוֹת הֲיֵ֣שׁ מַשְׂכִּ֑יל דֹּ֝רֵשׁ אֶת־אֱלֹהִֽים׃

Psalms 14:2: 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:168 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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