Psalms 17:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer from lips without deceit.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: hear, attend, give, cry, pray · To what, where: right, ear, lips
This is Psalms 17:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, my), 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 | Hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hear | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 LORD | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 LORD | discourse |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hear | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 attend | punct |
| 8 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hear | conj |
| 9 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 cry | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cry | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attend | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hear | conj |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 prayer | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 17 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obl |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 deceit | case |
| 21 | deceit | deceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | imperative | you not said here | the right | LORD vocative | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | attend | infinitive | you not said here | unto my cry | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | ear | lips | unto my prayer; without deceit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||
| 4 | cry | my | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | pray | my | nom prayer «act 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
תְּפִלָּ֗ה לְדָ֫וִ֥דשִׁמְעָ֤ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀ צֶ֗דֶק הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה רִנָּתִ֗י הַאֲזִ֥ינָה תְפִלָּתִ֑י בְּ֝לֹ֗א שִׂפְתֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃
Psalms 17:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- A Prayer of David.
- Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer from lips without deceit.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:196 of Mova's parse database.
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