Psalms 15:4 · JPS 1917
In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
Who acts: person, LORD · What happens: despise, honour, fear, swear, not change, hurt · To what, where: vile person, eyes, LORD
This is Psalms 15:4 · 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 (person, LORD), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 person | nmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 despised | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 despised | aux:pass |
| 8 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honoureth | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 honoureth | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 honoureth | nsubj |
| 12 | honoureth | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 despised | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 honoureth | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fear | nsubj |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 them | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 LORD | det |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 he | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 despised | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sweareth | nsubj |
| 21 | sweareth | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 he | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 hurt | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hurt | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hurt | amod |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sweareth | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 changeth | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 changeth | cc |
| 28 | changeth | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sweareth | conj |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 changeth | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 despised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | present · passive | a vile person in a vile person in a vile person's eyes's eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | honour | present | person | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fear | present | the LORD | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | swear | present | to LORD's own hurt | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not change | present | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | hurt | LORD | nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=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
נִבְזֶ֤ה ׀ בְּֽעֵ֘ינָ֤יו נִמְאָ֗ס וְאֶת־יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֣ה יְכַבֵּ֑ד נִשְׁבַּ֥ע לְ֝הָרַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יָמִֽר׃
Psalms 15:4: 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:180 of Mova's parse database.
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