Psalms 142:4 · JPS 1917

When my spirit fainteth within me — Thou knowest my path — in the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me.

Who acts: spirit, Thou, I, they · What happens: faint, know, walk, hide · To what, where: path, snare, way

This is Psalms 142:4 · 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 (spirit, Thou, I, they), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 fainteth	mark
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 spirit	nmod:poss
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fainteth	nsubj
4	fainteth	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hidden	advcl
5	within	within	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fainteth	obl
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 fainteth	punct
8	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 knowest	nsubj
9	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 path	nmod:poss
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knowest	obj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 hidden	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hidden	obl
16	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	18 walk	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
18	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hidden	aux
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hidden	nsubj
21	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 knowest	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snare	det
23	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hidden	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hidden	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	faint	present	my spirit			within me	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	present	Thou	my path			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus
3	walk	present	I			wherein property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	present · perfect	they	a snare	the way	for me	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snare=Patient in way=Location

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

בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֬ף עָלַ֨י ׀ רוּחִ֗י וְאַתָּה֮ יָדַ֪עְתָּ נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י בְּאֹֽרַח־ז֥וּ אֲהַלֵּ֑ךְ טָמְנ֖וּ פַ֣ח לִֽי׃

Psalms 142:4: 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:2580 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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