Psalms 106:23 · JPS 1917

Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

Who acts: Ham, Moses · What happens: say, destroy, not stand, turn back · To what, where: things, breach, wrath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Psalms 106:23 · 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 (Ham, Moses), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 destroy	mark
5	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 destroy	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 destroy	aux
7	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 destroy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stood	advmod
12	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
13	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chosen	nmod:poss
14	chosen	chosen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Moses	appos
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 destroy	advcl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 Him	case
17	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stood	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 breach	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 breach	det
20	breach	breach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 turn	mark
23	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stood	advcl
24	back	back	ADP	_	23 turn	compound:prt
25	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wrath	nmod:poss
26	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turn	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 destroy	punct
28	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	31 destroy	mark
29	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 destroy	aux
31	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stood	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ham				therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	destroy	would	Ham	things = thing				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	not stand	past	Moses		the breach	before Ham		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	turn back	to-infinitive	Moses not said here	Ham's wrath				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme
5	destroy	should	Ham	things = thing				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥ם לוּלֵ֡י מֹ֘שֶׁ֤ה בְחִיר֗וֹ עָמַ֣ד בַּפֶּ֣רֶץ לְפָנָ֑יו לְהָשִׁ֥יב חֲ֝מָת֗וֹ מֵֽהַשְׁחִֽית׃

Psalms 106:23: 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:1929 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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