Psalms 139:16 · JPS 1917
Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written — even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Who acts: eyes, none · What happens: see, write, fashion, be · To what, where: unformed substance, eyes, book, days
This is Psalms 139:16 · 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 (eyes, none), 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 | Thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 substance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | unformed | unformed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 substance | amod |
| 7 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 written | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 written | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 book | nmod:poss |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 written | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 written | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 written | aux:pass |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 written | advmod |
| 16 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | conj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 days | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 days | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 days | det |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 written | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fashioned | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fashioned | aux:pass |
| 23 | fashioned | fashion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 days | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 was | punct |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 was | mark |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 yet | fixed |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 29 was | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | _ | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 days | acl:relcl |
| 30 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 was | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 none | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Thine eyes | mine unformed substance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer substance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | eyes = eye | Thy book | all property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | |||
| 3 | fashion | past · passive | the days | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | be | past | none | there | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
גָּלְמִ֤י ׀ רָ֘א֤וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וְעַֽל־סִפְרְךָ֮ כֻּלָּ֪ם יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ יָמִ֥ים יֻצָּ֑רוּ וְל֖וֹ אֶחָ֣ד בָּהֶֽם׃
Psalms 139:16: 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:2540 of Mova's parse database.
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