Psalms 18:11 · JPS 1917
And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.
Who acts: fire · What happens: ride, fly, swoop down
This is Psalms 18:11 · 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 (fire), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rode | cc |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 cherub | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cherub | det |
| 6 | cherub | cherub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fly | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 swoop | punct |
| 12 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 16 swoop | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yea | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swoop | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swoop | aux |
| 16 | swoop | swoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 swoop | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 wings | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wings | det |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swoop | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wind | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wings | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | fire | upon a cherub | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fly | past · do-support | fire not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swoop down | past · do-support | fire | upon the wings of the wind; down property | tree rules |
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
וַיִּרְכַּ֣ב עַל־כְּ֭רוּב וַיָּעֹ֑ף וַ֝יֵּ֗דֶא עַל־כַּנְפֵי־רֽוּחַ׃
Psalms 18:11: 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:221 of Mova's parse database.
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