Psalms 22:16 · JPS 1917

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.

Who acts: tongue, Thou · What happens: dry up, cleave, lay · To what, where: strength, me, dust

This is Psalms 22:16 · 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 (tongue, Thou), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 strength	nmod:poss
2	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	aux:pass
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 potsherd	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 potsherd	det
8	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cleaveth	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cleaveth	cc
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tongue	nmod:poss
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaveth	nsubj
13	cleaveth	cleave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 throat	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 throat	nmod:poss
16	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaveth	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 layest	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 layest	cc
19	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 layest	nsubj
20	layest	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 layest	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 dust	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dust	det
24	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 layest	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dust	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dried	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry up	present · passive		My strength		like a potsherd	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	cleave	present	my tongue			to my throat result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to throat=Result
3	lay	present	Thou	me	the dust of death		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in dust=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

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִימֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃

Psalms 22:16: 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:323 of Mova's parse database.

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