Psalms 19:8 · JPS 1917
The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Who acts: law, testimony, LORD · What happens: be, restore, make, testify · To what, where: soul
This is Psalms 19:8 · 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 (law, testimony, LORD), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perfect | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 LORD | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 LORD | det |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 law | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perfect | cop |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 restoring | punct |
| 9 | restoring | restore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 perfect | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soul | det |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restoring | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 testimony | det |
| 14 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 LORD | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 LORD | det |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 testimony | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 perfect | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sure | advcl |
| 22 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 making | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 simple | det |
| 24 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wise | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 perfect | 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 | is | present | the law of the LORD | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | restore | gerund | the law of the LORD not said here | the soul | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the testimony of the LORD | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the testimony of the LORD not said here | wise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | testify | the LORD | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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
תּ֘וֹרַ֤ת יְהוָ֣ה תְּ֭מִימָה מְשִׁ֣יבַת נָ֑פֶשׁ עֵד֥וּת יְהוָ֥ה נֶ֝אֱמָנָ֗ה מַחְכִּ֥ימַת פֶּֽתִי׃
Psalms 19:8: 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:272 of Mova's parse database.
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