Psalms 127:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Who acts: LORD, Ascents, watchman · What happens: build, labour, keep, wake · To what, where: house, vain, city
This is Psalms 127:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (LORD, Ascents, watchman), 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 | Except | except | SCONJ | _ | 4 build | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 build | nsubj |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 labour | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 labour | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 labour | nsubj |
| 9 | labour | labour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 vain | case |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 labour | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 labour | nsubj |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 they | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 build | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 16 | except | except | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 LORD | det |
| 18 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 waketh | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waketh | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 watchman | det |
| 24 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waketh | nsubj |
| 25 | waketh | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 labour | parataxis |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 vain | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 vain | case |
| 28 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 waketh | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 labour | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | infinitive | the LORD | the house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 2 | labour | present | Ascents = ascent | vain | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build | present | house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | the LORD | the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wake | present | the watchman | vain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 הַֽמַּֽעֲל֗וֹת לִשְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥האִם־יְהוָ֤ה ׀ לֹא־יִבְנֶ֬ה בַ֗יִת שָׁ֤וְא ׀ עָמְל֣וּ בוֹנָ֣יו בּ֑וֹ אִם־יְהוָ֥ה לֹֽא־יִשְׁמָר־עִ֝֗יר שָׁ֤וְא ׀ שָׁקַ֬ד שׁוֹמֵֽר׃
Psalms 127:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.
- Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:2397 of Mova's parse database.
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