Psalms 36:8 · JPS 1917
How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings.
Who acts: lovingkindness, children · What happens: be, take, shadow · To what, where: refuge, shadow, wings
This is Psalms 36:8 · 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 (lovingkindness, children), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 precious | advmod |
| 2 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 precious | cop |
| 4 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 lovingkindness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lovingkindness | lovingkindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 precious | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 God | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 God | discourse |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 precious | vocative |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 precious | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 children | nmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 precious | parataxis |
| 16 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shadow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shadow | det |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wings | case |
| 21 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shadow | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=excl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thy lovingkindness | God vocative; precious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the children of men | refuge | the shadow of Thy wings | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in shadow=Location | |||
| 3 | shadow | Thy wings | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
מַה־יָּקָ֥ר חַסְדְּךָ֗ אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים וּבְנֵ֥י אָדָ֑ם בְּצֵ֥ל כְּ֝נָפֶ֗יךָ יֶחֱסָיֽוּן׃
Psalms 36:8: 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:567 of Mova's parse database.
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