Psalms 35:16 · JPS 1917
With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.
Who acts: profanest mockeries, witnesses · What happens: backbite, gnash
This is Psalms 35:16 · 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 (profanest mockeries, witnesses), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 mockeries | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mockeries | det |
| 3 | profanest | profane | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 mockeries | amod |
| 4 | mockeries | mockery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gnash | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 backbiting | mark |
| 6 | backbiting | backbite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mockeries | acl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gnash | nsubj |
| 8 | gnash | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gnash | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gnash | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gnash | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | backbite | gerund | the profanest mockeries not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gnash | present | witnesses = witness | with the profanest mockeries; at me; with witnesses's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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
בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃
Psalms 35:16: 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:545 of Mova's parse database.
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