Psalms 17:4 · JPS 1917
As for the doings of men, by the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
Who acts: I · What happens: keep, word · To what, where: me, ways, lips
This is Psalms 17:4 · 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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 doings | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doings | det |
| 4 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kept | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doings | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doings | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lips | case |
| 12 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 word | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kept | aux |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ways | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ways | det |
| 20 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kept | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 violent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 violent | det |
| 23 | violent | violent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ways | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect | I | me | the ways of the violent | as the doings of men; by the word of Thy lips | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme by word=Location | ||
| 2 | word | Thy lips | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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
לִפְעֻלּ֣וֹת אָ֭דָם בִּדְבַ֣ר שְׂפָתֶ֑יךָ אֲנִ֥י שָׁ֝מַ֗רְתִּי אָרְח֥וֹת פָּרִֽיץ׃
Psalms 17:4: 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:199 of Mova's parse database.
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