Psalms 35:13 · JPS 1917
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
Who acts: witnesses, clothing, I, prayer, my, mine · What happens: be, afflict, return, pray, bosom · To what, where: sackcloth, soul, own bosom
This is Psalms 35:13 · 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 (witnesses, clothing, I, prayer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 afflicted | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 afflicted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 sick | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sick | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sick | cop |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sackcloth | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sick | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sackcloth | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sackcloth | cop |
| 14 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 afflicted | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afflicted | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 afflicted | nsubj |
| 17 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 afflicted | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 fasting | case |
| 21 | fasting | fasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 afflicted | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 return | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 return | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 25 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 return | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prayer | punct |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 return | aux |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 return | nsubj |
| 29 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afflicted | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 bosom | case |
| 31 | mine | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bosom | amod |
| 33 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 return | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 afflicted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | witnesses = witness | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | my clothing | sackcloth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | afflict | past | I | my soul | as me; with fasting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | return | may | my prayer | mine own bosom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bosom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | bosom | mine | nom bosom «state transitive»: 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
וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ בַּחֲלוֹתָ֡ם לְב֬וּשִׁי שָׂ֗ק עִנֵּ֣יתִי בַצּ֣וֹם נַפְשִׁ֑י וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗י עַל־חֵיקִ֥י תָשֽׁוּב׃
Psalms 35:13: 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:542 of Mova's parse database.
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