Psalms 140:5 · JPS 1917
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to make my steps slip.
Who acts: you, violent man, steps, my · What happens: keep, preserve, purpose, make, slip, step · To what, where: me, hands, steps
This is Psalms 140:5 · 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 (you, violent man, steps, my), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 LORD | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 LORD | discourse |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hands | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hands | det |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wicked | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wicked | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hands | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 preserve | punct |
| 14 | preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 preserve | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preserve | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 purposed | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 purposed | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 purposed | aux |
| 23 | purposed | purpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 purposed | xcomp |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steps | nmod:poss |
| 27 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | me | the hands of the wicked | LORD vocative | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary from hand=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | preserve | infinitive | you not said here | me | from the violent man | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary from man=Theme | |||
| 3 | purpose speech: other | present · perfect | the violent man | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the violent man not said here | my steps | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | slip | infinitive | my steps not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | step | my | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ מִ֘ידֵ֤י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי׃
Psalms 140:5: 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:2556 of Mova's parse database.
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