Psalms 35:6 · JPS 1917
Let their way be dark and slippery, the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Who acts: angel, way · What happens: let, be, pursue · To what, where: way, spear
This is Psalms 35:6 · 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 (angel, way), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dark | cop |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slippery | cc |
| 7 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dark | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angel | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 angel | det |
| 10 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 LORD | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 LORD | det |
| 13 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 angel | nmod |
| 14 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 angel | acl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pursuing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the angel of the LORD | spear's way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | spear's way not said here | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | spear's way not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pursue | gerund | the angel of the LORD not said here | spear | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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
יְֽהִי־דַרְכָּ֗ם חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וַחֲלַקְלַקּ֑וֹת וּמַלְאַ֥ךְ יְ֝הוָ֗ה רֹדְפָֽם׃
Psalms 35:6: 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:535 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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