Psalms 38:21 · JPS 1917
They also that repay evil for good are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
Who acts: enemies, I, thing · What happens: repay, be, follow · To what, where: evil, adversaries, thing
This is Psalms 38:21 · 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 (enemies, I, thing), 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 | 9 adversaries | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 repay | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 repay | nsubj |
| 4 | repay | repay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 They | acl:relcl |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repay | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repay | obl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adversaries | cop |
| 9 | adversaries | adversary | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 adversaries | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | nsubj |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adversaries | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 good | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 adversaries | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | present | evil | for good | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent evil=Asset for good=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | enemies = enemy | adversaries | unto me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | follow | present | I | the thing | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the thing | good property | tree rules |
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
וּמְשַׁלְּמֵ֣י רָ֭עָה תַּ֣חַת טוֹבָ֑ה יִ֝שְׂטְנ֗וּנִי תַּ֣חַת רָֽדְפִי־טֽוֹב׃
Psalms 38:21: 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:634 of Mova's parse database.
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