Psalms 4:2 · JPS 1917
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness, Thou who didst set me free when I was in distress; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: answer, call, set, be, hear, pray · To what, where: me, distress, prayer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 4:2 · 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, I, 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 | Answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Answer | obj |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 call | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Answer | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 God | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 God | discourse |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Answer | vocative |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 righteousness | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 righteousness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 God | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Thou | punct |
| 13 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 God | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Thou | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 distress | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 distress | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 distress | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 distress | case |
| 23 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | advcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gracious | punct |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gracious | cop |
| 26 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Answer | conj |
| 27 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 gracious | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hear | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hear | cc |
| 31 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Answer | conj |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 33 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hear | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | God of my righteousness vocative | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | call | present | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set | past · do-support | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I | distress | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | you not said here | unto me; gracious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | infinitive | you not said here | my prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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
בְּקָרְאִ֡י עֲנֵ֤נִי ׀ אֱלֹ֘הֵ֤י צִדְקִ֗י בַּ֭צָּר הִרְחַ֣בְתָּ לִּ֑י חָ֝נֵּ֗נִי וּשְׁמַ֥ע תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃
Psalms 4:2: 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:32 of Mova's parse database.
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