Psalms 129:3 · JPS 1917
The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
Who acts: plowers · What happens: plow, make · To what, where: furrows
This is Psalms 129:3 · 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 (plowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plowers | det |
| 2 | plowers | plower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plowed | nsubj |
| 3 | plowed | plow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plowed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plowed | conj |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 furrows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plowed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plow | past | the plowers | upon my back | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | plowers = plower | plowers's furrows | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset furrow=Product |
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
עַל־גַּ֭בִּי חָרְשׁ֣וּ חֹרְשִׁ֑ים הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם׃
Psalms 129:3: 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:2412 of Mova's parse database.
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