Psalms 119:171 · JPS 1917
Let my lips utter praise: because Thou teachest me Thy statutes.
Who acts: you, lips, Thou · What happens: let, utter, teach · To what, where: praise, statutes, me
This is Psalms 119:171 · 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 (you, lips, Thou), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 utter | nsubj |
| 4 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 5 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 utter | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 teachest | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 teachest | mark |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 teachest | nsubj |
| 9 | teachest | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 teachest | iobj |
| 11 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 statutes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | statutes | statute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teachest | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | infinitive | my lips | praise | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent praise=Topic | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | Thou | Thy statutes | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient statute=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
תַּבַּ֣עְנָה שְׂפָתַ֣י תְּהִלָּ֑ה כִּ֖י תְלַמְּדֵ֣נִי חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃
Psalms 119:171: 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:2336 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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