Psalms 129:6 · JPS 1917

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

Who acts: you, cords, grass · What happens: let, be, wither, spring up · To what, where: cords

This is Psalms 129:6 · 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, cords, grass), 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 grass	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 housetops	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 housetops	det
9	housetops	housetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grass	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 withereth	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 withereth	nsubj
12	withereth	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grass	acl:relcl
13	afore	afore	SCONJ	_	15 springeth	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 springeth	nsubj
15	springeth	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 withereth	advcl
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 springeth	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	cords = cord		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	infinitive	cords = cord not said here		as the grass; upon the housetops	tree rules
3	wither	present	the grass			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	spring up	present	grass			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

Psalms 129:6: 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:2415 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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