Psalms 109:11 · JPS 1917
Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
Who acts: you, creditor, strangers · What happens: let, distrain, have, make, spoil · To what, where: all, spoil, labour
This is Psalms 109:11 · 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, creditor, strangers), 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 creditor | det |
| 3 | creditor | creditor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distrain | nsubj |
| 4 | distrain | distrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 distrain | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hath | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hath | nsubj |
| 8 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | ccomp |
| 14 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 labour | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 labour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoil | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
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- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | distrain | infinitive | the creditor | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | creditor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | strangers | spoil of creditor's labour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spoil=Product | ||||
| 6 | spoil | creditor's labour | nom spoil «possession 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
יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נ֭וֹשֶׁה לְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֑וֹ וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֽוֹ׃
Psalms 109:11: 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:2025 of Mova's parse database.
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