Psalms 105:16 · JPS 1917

And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

Who acts: Canaan · What happens: call, break · To what, where: famine, whole staff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Psalms 105:16 · 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 (Canaan), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 broke	cc
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 famine	det
5	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 staff	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 staff	amod
14	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 bread	case
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 staff	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Canaan	a famine				upon the land	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent famine=Recipient
2	break	past	Canaan	the whole staff of bread					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer staff=Patient

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

וַיִּקְרָ֣א רָ֭עָב עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ כָּֽל־מַטֵּה־לֶ֥חֶם שָׁבָֽר׃

Psalms 105:16: 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:1877 of Mova's parse database.

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