Psalms 139:5 · JPS 1917
Thou hast hemmed me in behind and before, and laid Thy hand upon me.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: hem in, lay · To what, where: me, hand
This is Psalms 139:5 · 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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hemmed | nsubj |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hemmed | aux |
| 3 | hemmed | hem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hemmed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hemmed | compound:prt |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 hemmed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 before | cc |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 behind | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laid | cc |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hemmed | conj |
| 12 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hemmed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hem in | present · perfect | Thou | me | behind property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | Thou not said here | Thy hand | upon me | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon i=Destination |
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
אָח֣וֹר וָקֶ֣דֶם צַרְתָּ֑נִי וַתָּ֖שֶׁת עָלַ֣י כַּפֶּֽכָה׃
Psalms 139:5: 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:2529 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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