Psalms 18:43 · JPS 1917
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Who acts: I · What happens: beat, cast out · To what, where: enemies
This is Psalms 18:43 · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beat | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beat | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dust | det |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 small | obl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dust | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cast | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cast | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cast | aux |
| 16 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beat | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cast | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cast | compound:prt |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 mire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mire | det |
| 21 | mire | mire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cast | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 streets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 streets | det |
| 24 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mire | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | 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 | beat | past · do-support | I | enemies = enemy | then | small property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||
| 2 | cast out | past · do-support | I | enemies = enemy | as the mire of the streets | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as mire=Attribute |
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
וְֽאֶשְׁחָקֵ֗ם כְּעָפָ֥ר עַל־פְּנֵי־ר֑וּחַ כְּטִ֖יט חוּצ֣וֹת אֲרִיקֵֽם׃
Psalms 18:43: 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:254 of Mova's parse database.
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