Psalms 18:42 · JPS 1917
They cried, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but He answered them not.
Who acts: enemies, none, LORD · What happens: cry, be, save, not answer · To what, where: enemies
This is Psalms 18:42 · 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 (enemies, none, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 was | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 save | mark |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 none | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 LORD | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 LORD | advmod |
| 12 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 LORD | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 LORD | det |
| 14 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 save | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 answered | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | 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 | cry speech: express | past | enemies = enemy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | none not said here | unto the LORD | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not answer speech: assert | past | LORD | enemies = enemy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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
יְשַׁוְּע֥וּ וְאֵין־מוֹשִׁ֑יעַ עַל־יְ֝הוָ֗ה וְלֹ֣א עָנָֽם׃
Psalms 18:42: 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:253 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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