Psalms 116:4 · JPS 1917
But I called upon the name of the LORD: 'I beseech thee, O LORD, deliver my soul.'
Who acts: I · What happens: call, beseech, deliver, name · To what, where: thee, soul, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 116:4 · 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 LORD | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 beseech | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 beseech | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 beseech | nsubj |
| 13 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 beseech | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 LORD | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 LORD | discourse |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 beseech | vocative |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deliver | punct |
| 19 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beseech | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 soul | nmod:poss |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deliver | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 beseech | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 beseech | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | I | upon the name of the LORD | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beseech | present | I | thee | LORD vocative | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deliver | infinitive | I not said here | my soul | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | the LORD | nom name «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
וּבְשֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֶקְרָ֑א אָנָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה מַלְּטָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃
Psalms 116:4: 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:2115 of Mova's parse database.
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