Psalms 30:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?
Who acts: dust · What happens: praise, declare · To what, where: Thee, truth
This is Psalms 30:10 · 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 (dust), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 praise | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dust | det |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 praise | nsubj |
| 4 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 declare | parataxis |
| 5 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 praise | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 praise | punct |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 declare | aux |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 declare | nsubj |
| 9 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 truth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declare | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | shall | the dust | Thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | shall | dust | Thy truth | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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
מַה־בֶּ֥צַע בְּדָמִי֮ בְּרִדְתִּ֪י אֶ֫ל־שָׁ֥חַת הֲיוֹדְךָ֥ עָפָ֑ר הֲיַגִּ֥יד אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃
Psalms 30:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- 'What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
- Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:442 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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