Psalms 140:10 · JPS 1917
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Who acts: you, mischief · What happens: compass about, let, cover · To what, where: me, mischief, desires
This is Psalms 140:10 · 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, mischief), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 head | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 head | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 compass | nsubj |
| 8 | compass | compass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 compass | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 compass | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mischief | det |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lips | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lips | amod |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mischief | nmod |
| 19 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cover | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compass about | present | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | the mischief of desires's own lips | as the head of those | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cover | infinitive | the mischief of desires's own lips not said here | desires = desire | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
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
רֹ֥אשׁ מְסִבָּ֑י עֲמַ֖ל שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ יְכַסֵּֽמוֹ׃
Psalms 140:10: 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:2561 of Mova's parse database.
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