Psalms 139:11 · JPS 1917
And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night';
Who acts: I, darkness, light · What happens: say, envelop, be · To what, where: me, night · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 139:11 · 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 (I, darkness, light), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 envelop | advcl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 envelop | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 envelop | punct |
| 7 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 11 envelop | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 darkness | det |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 envelop | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 envelop | aux |
| 11 | envelop | envelop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 envelop | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 night | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 night | nsubj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 night | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 night | cop |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 envelop | conj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 envelop | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 envelop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | envelop | shall | the darkness | me | surely property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | the light about me | night | tree rules |
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
וָ֭אֹמַר אַךְ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה א֣וֹר בַּעֲדֵֽנִי׃
Psalms 139:11: 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:2535 of Mova's parse database.
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