Psalms 38:13 · JPS 1917

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak crafty devices, and utter deceits all the day.

Who acts: kinsmen, my · What happens: seek, lay, speak, hurt · To what, where: snares, hurt, crafty devices · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Psalms 38:13 · 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 (kinsmen, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lay	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	4 seek	advmod
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 seek	nsubj
4	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 They	acl:relcl
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obl
8	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	snares	snare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lay	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 speak	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 speak	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seek	nsubj
16	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 they	acl:relcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hurt	nmod:poss
18	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seek	obj
19	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	conj
20	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 devices	amod
21	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 speak	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deceits	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deceits	cc
24	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deceits	amod
25	deceits	deceit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 devices	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speak	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present			after my life		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay	past	kinsmen = kinsman	snares		for me	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent snare=Result for i=Beneficiary
3	seek	present		my hurt			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme
4	speak speech: other	present	kinsmen = kinsman	crafty devices and utter deceits	day		tree rules
5	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

וַיְנַקְשׁ֤וּ ׀ מְבַקְשֵׁ֬י נַפְשִׁ֗י וְדֹרְשֵׁ֣י רָ֭עָתִי דִּבְּר֣וּ הַוּ֑וֹת וּ֝מִרְמ֗וֹת כָּל־הַיּ֥וֹם יֶהְגּֽוּ׃

Psalms 38:13: 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:626 of Mova's parse database.

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