Psalms 17:12 · JPS 1917
He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.
Who acts: judgment, lion, young lion · What happens: be, tear, lurk · To what, where: pieces, secret places
This is Psalms 17:12 · 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 (judgment, lion, young lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lion | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 lion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 eager | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eager | cop |
| 8 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lion | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tear | mark |
| 10 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eager | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tear | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lion | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lion | cc |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lion | amod |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lion | conj |
| 19 | lurking | lurk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 lion | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 places | case |
| 21 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 places | amod |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lurking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | judgment | like a lion and a young lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a lion and a young lion | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | a lion and a young lion not said here | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lurk | gerund | a young lion not said here | secret places | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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
דִּמְיֹנ֗וֹ כְּ֭אַרְיֵה יִכְס֣וֹף לִטְר֑וֹף וְ֝כִכְפִ֗יר יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃
Psalms 17:12: 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:207 of Mova's parse database.
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