Psalms 35:4 · JPS 1917

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.

Who acts: you, spear, my · What happens: let, be, bring, seek, turn back, abash · To what, where: confusion, spear, hurt

This is Psalms 35:4 · 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, spear, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ashamed	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ashamed	cop
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brought	cc
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ashamed	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 confusion	case
8	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 seek	nsubj
10	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 them	acl:relcl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 soul	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 soul	nmod:poss
13	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seek	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	aux:pass
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 let	ccomp
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 abashed	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 abashed	aux:pass
22	abashed	abash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 turned	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 devise	nsubj
24	devise	devise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	acl:relcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hurt	nmod:poss
26	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 devise	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive	spear				ashamed property	tree rules
3	bring	participle	spear not said here		confusion			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to confusion=Destination
4	seek	present				after my soul		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive						tree rules
6	turn back	infinitive · passive		spear				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	abash	infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
8	devise	present		my hurt				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient
9	hurt		my					nom hurt «state 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

יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ וְיִכָּלְמוּ֮ מְבַקְשֵׁ֪י נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֣וֹר וְיַחְפְּר֑וּ חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י רָעָתִֽי׃

Psalms 35:4: 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:533 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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