Psalms 18:7 · JPS 1917

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God; out of His temple He heard my voice, and my cry came before Him unto His ears.

Who acts: I, LORD, cry, my · What happens: call, cry, hear, come, distress · To what, where: distress, voice, temple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Psalms 18:7 · 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, LORD, cry, my), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 distress	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 distress	nmod:poss
3	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 LORD	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 LORD	det
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	14 God	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 God	nmod:poss
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 temple	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 temple	case
18	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 temple	nmod:poss
19	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
20	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 voice	nmod:poss
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cry	nmod:poss
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	conj
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 Him	case
30	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	obl
31	unto	unto	ADP	_	33 ears	case
32	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ears	nmod:poss
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	I		my distress		upon the LORD	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	I not said here				unto my God	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	LORD	my voice	LORD's temple			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	come	past	my cry			before LORD	unto LORD's ears	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
5	distress		my					nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	cry		my					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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

בַּצַּר־לִ֤י ׀ אֶֽקְרָ֣א יְהוָה֮ וְאֶל־אֱלֹהַ֪י אֲשַׁ֫וֵּ֥עַ יִשְׁמַ֣ע מֵהֵיכָל֣וֹ קוֹלִ֑י וְ֝שַׁוְעָתִ֗י לְפָנָ֤יו ׀ תָּב֬וֹא בְאָזְנָֽיו׃

Psalms 18:7: 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:217 of Mova's parse database.

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