Psalms 137:4 · JPS 1917
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?
Who acts: we, LORD · What happens: sing · To what, where: song, foreign land
This is Psalms 137:4 · 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, LORD), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sing | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 'S | 's | PART | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 11 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | shall | we | the LORD's song | a foreign land | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing | the LORD | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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
אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָ֑ה עַ֝֗ל אַדְמַ֥ת נֵכָֽר׃
Psalms 137:4: 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:2508 of Mova's parse database.
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