Psalms 119:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Wherewithal shall a young man keep his way pure?
Who acts: young man · What happens: keep · To what, where: way
This is Psalms 119:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (young man), 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 | Wherewithal | wherewithal | ADV | _ | 6 keep | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | shall | a young man | man's way | pure, wherewithal property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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
בַּמֶּ֣ה יְזַכֶּה־נַּ֭עַר אֶת־אָרְח֑וֹ לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃
Psalms 119:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Wherewithal shall a young man keep his way pure?
- By taking heed thereto according to Thy word.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:2171 of Mova's parse database.
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