Psalms 28:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Unto thee, O LORD, do I call; my Rock, be not Thou deaf unto me; lest, if Thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Who acts: I, Rock, Thou · What happens: call, not be, be, become, go down · To what, where: pit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 28:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I, Rock, 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 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 2 thee | case |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 call | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 LORD | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 LORD | discourse |
| 5 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 call | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 LORD | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 call | nsubj |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 deaf | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Rock | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deaf | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deaf | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deaf | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 deaf | advmod |
| 16 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 deaf | nsubj |
| 17 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 call | parataxis |
| 18 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 deaf | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 become | punct |
| 21 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 31 become | mark |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 silent | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 silent | mark |
| 24 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 silent | nsubj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 silent | cop |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 become | advcl |
| 27 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 silent | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 silent | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 become | nsubj |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | advcl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 become | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 go | nsubj |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 them | acl:relcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 go | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 pit | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pit | det |
| 39 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | I | unto thee; LORD vocative | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | my Rock | unto me; deaf property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | Thou | unto me; silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | present | I | like them = they | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go down | present | the pit | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
לְדָוִ֡דאֵ֘לֶ֤יךָ יְהוָ֨ה ׀ אֶקְרָ֗א צוּרִי֮ אַֽל־תֶּחֱרַ֪שׁ מִ֫מֶּ֥נִּי פֶּן־תֶּֽחֱשֶׁ֥ה מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְ֝נִמְשַׁ֗לְתִּי עִם־י֥וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃
Psalms 28:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- A Psalm of David.
- Unto thee, O LORD, do I call; my Rock, be not Thou deaf unto me; lest, if Thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:411 of Mova's parse database.
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