Psalms 109:16 · JPS 1917

Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.

Who acts: sin · What happens: remember, not do, persecute, be, slay · To what, where: kindness, poor man

This is Psalms 109:16 · 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 (sin), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 remembered	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	1 Because	fixed
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remembered	xcomp
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 persecuted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 persecuted	cc
11	persecuted	persecute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 needy	cc
15	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 poor	conj
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 persecuted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ready	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ready	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 broken	det
20	broken	break	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ready	dislocated
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 heart	case
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broken	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ready	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ready	cop
25	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remembered	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 slay	mark
27	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ready	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	sin			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not do	to-infinitive	sin not said here	kindness		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Eventuality
3	persecute	past	sin not said here	the poor man		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	is	past	sin		the broken dislocated; ready property	tree rules
5	slay	to-infinitive	sin not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ לֹ֥א זָכַר֮ עֲשׂ֪וֹת חָ֥סֶד וַיִּרְדֹּ֡ף אִישׁ־עָנִ֣י וְ֭אֶבְיוֹן וְנִכְאֵ֨ה לֵבָ֬ב לְמוֹתֵֽת׃

Psalms 109:16: 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:2030 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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