Psalms 16:4 · JPS 1917
Let the idols of them be multiplied that make suit unto another; their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.
Who acts: you, idols, I · What happens: let, multiply, make, not offer, take, offer · To what, where: idols, suit, drink offerings, names, blood
This is Psalms 16:4 · 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 (you, idols, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 idols | det |
| 3 | idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 multiplied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 idols | nmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 multiplied | aux:pass |
| 7 | multiplied | multiply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 idols | acl:relcl |
| 10 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 make | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 offer | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 offerings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offerings | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
| 17 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 offer | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offerings | nmod |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 offer | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 offer | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 offer | advmod |
| 23 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 offer | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 names | nmod:poss |
| 28 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 lips | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lips | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 take | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | multiply | infinitive · passive | the idols of them | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | the idols of them | suit | unto another | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suit=Product | |||
| 4 | not offer | future | I | idols's drink offerings of blood | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | I not said here | idols's names | upon my lips | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 6 | offer | idols = idol | blood | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 7 | name | idols = idol | nom name «communication transitive»: 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
יִרְבּ֥וּ עַצְּבוֹתָם֮ אַחֵ֪ר מָ֫הָ֥רוּ בַּל־אַסִּ֣יךְ נִסְכֵּיהֶ֣ם מִדָּ֑ם וּֽבַל־אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶת־שְׁ֝מוֹתָ֗ם עַל־שְׂפָתָֽי׃
Psalms 16:4: 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:187 of Mova's parse database.
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