Psalms 33:17 · JPS 1917
A horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth it afford escape by its great strength.
Who acts: horse · What happens: be, afford · To what, where: vain thing, escape
This is Psalms 33:17 · 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 (horse), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 safety | case |
| 8 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 afford | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 afford | cc |
| 11 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 afford | aux |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 afford | nsubj |
| 13 | afford | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | conj |
| 14 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afford | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 strength | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 strength | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strength | amod |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afford | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a horse | a vain thing | for safety | tree rules | |||
| 2 | afford | present · do-support | horse | escape | by horse's great strength | tree rules |
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
שֶׁ֣קֶר הַ֭סּוּס לִתְשׁוּעָ֑ה וּבְרֹ֥ב חֵ֝יל֗וֹ לֹ֣א יְמַלֵּֽט׃
Psalms 33:17: 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:500 of Mova's parse database.
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