Psalms 137:3 · JPS 1917

For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'

Who acts: harps, tormentors, Zion · What happens: lead, ask, sing, word · To what, where: us, words, mirth, one, song

This is Psalms 137:3 · 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 (harps, tormentors, Zion), 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	For	for	ADP	_	8 asked	mark
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 asked	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 led	nsubj
5	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 they	acl:relcl
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 led	obj
7	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 led	xcomp
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 asked	obl
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 song	case
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 words	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tormentors	nmod:poss
17	tormentors	tormentor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 asked	obl
21	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Sing	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 Sing	punct
24	Sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	parataxis
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Sing	iobj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 Sing	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 songs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 songs	det
29	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Zion	case
31	Zion	Zion	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 songs	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Sing	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 Sing	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past		us			captive property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	harps = harp	words of song		there	of us	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past	our tormentors	mirth			of us	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mirth=Recipient
4	sing speech: express	infinitive		one of the songs of Zion	us			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary one=Theme
5	word			song				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	sing		Zion					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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

כִּ֤י שָׁ֨ם שְֽׁאֵל֪וּנוּ שׁוֹבֵ֡ינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁ֭יר וְתוֹלָלֵ֣ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֑ה שִׁ֥ירוּ לָ֝נ֗וּ מִשִּׁ֥יר צִיּֽוֹן׃

Psalms 137:3: 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:2507 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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