Psalms 137:1 · JPS 1917

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Who acts: we · What happens: sit down, weep, remember · To what, where: Zion

This is Psalms 137:1 · 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 (we), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 rivers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rivers	det
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Babylon	case
5	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rivers	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sat	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wept	punct
12	yea	yea	INTJ	_	15 wept	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yea	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wept	nsubj
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembered	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 remembered	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 remembered	nsubj
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wept	advcl
20	Zion	Zion	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 remembered	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	we		there	by the rivers of Babylon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
2	weep	past	we				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	past	we	Zion			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent zion=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

עַ֥ל נַהֲר֨וֹת ׀ בָּבֶ֗ל שָׁ֣ם יָ֭שַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִ֑ינוּ בְּ֝זָכְרֵ֗נוּ אֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃

Psalms 137:1: 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:2505 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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