Psalms 135:8 · JPS 1917
Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.
What happens: smite · To what, where: first born
This is Psalms 135:8 · 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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 smote | nsubj |
| 2 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 born | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 born | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
| 6 | born | born | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smote | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Egypt | case |
| 8 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 both | punct |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 man | det |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beast | cc |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | the first born of Egypt of both man and beast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus born=Experiencer |
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
שֶֽׁ֭הִכָּה בְּכוֹרֵ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם מֵ֝אָדָ֗ם עַד־בְּהֵמָֽה׃
Psalms 135:8: 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:2465 of Mova's parse database.
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