Psalms 124:1 · JPS 1917
A Song of Ascents; of David. 'If it had not been the LORD who was for us', let Israel now say;
Who acts: Song, LORD, Israel · What happens: not be, be, let, say · To what, where: LORD, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 124:1 · 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 (Song, LORD, Israel), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Song | det |
| 2 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ascents | case |
| 4 | Ascents | Ascents | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Song | nmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 David | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 David | case |
| 7 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Song | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Song | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Song | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 LORD | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 LORD | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 LORD | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 LORD | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 LORD | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 LORD | det |
| 16 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 let | advcl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 us | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 us | cop |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 LORD | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Song | parataxis |
| 23 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 say | advmod |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Song | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- other
- voice
- none
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=other, act=other, voice=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Song | the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the LORD | for us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Israel | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Israel not said here | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּעֲל֗וֹת לְדָ֫וִ֥דלוּלֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה שֶׁהָ֣יָה לָ֑נוּ יֹֽאמַר־נָ֝א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Psalms 124:1: 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:2374 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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