Psalms 116:3 · JPS 1917
The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.
Who acts: cords, straits, I · What happens: compass, get, find · To what, where: me, hold, trouble
This is Psalms 116:3 · 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 (cords, straits, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cords | det |
| 2 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 compassed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 death | case |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cords | nmod |
| 5 | compassed | compass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 compassed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 straits | det |
| 10 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 13 | nether | nether | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 nether | punct |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 straits | nmod |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 compassed | conj |
| 17 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 got | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 compassed | conj |
| 23 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sorrow | cc |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trouble | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compassed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compass | past | the cords of death | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the straits of the nether world | hold | upon me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | find | past | I | trouble and sorrow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic |
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
אֲפָפ֤וּנִי ׀ חֶבְלֵי־מָ֗וֶת וּמְצָרֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל מְצָא֑וּנִי צָרָ֖ה וְיָג֣וֹן אֶמְצָֽא׃
Psalms 116:3: 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:2114 of Mova's parse database.
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