Psalms 104:9 · JPS 1917
Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth.
Who acts: Thou, valleys · What happens: set, not pass over, not return, cover · To what, where: bound, earth
This is Psalms 104:9 · 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, valleys), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bound | det |
| 5 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 pass | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pass | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pass | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pass | advmod |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bound | acl:relcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 pass | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 return | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 return | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 return | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 return | advmod |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cover | mark |
| 19 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 return | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cover | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · do-support | Thou | a bound | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bound=Result | ||||
| 2 | not pass over | should | valleys = valley | a bound | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not return | might | valleys = valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive | valleys = valley not said here | the earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination |
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
גְּֽבוּל־שַׂ֭מְתָּ בַּל־יַֽעֲבֹר֑וּן בַּל־יְ֝שׁוּב֗וּן לְכַסּ֥וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Psalms 104:9: 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:1832 of Mova's parse database.
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