Psalms 39:2 · JPS 1917
I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'
Who acts: I · What happens: say, take, not sin, keep, be · To what, where: heed, ways, curb, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 39:2 · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ways | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ways | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sin | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sin | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sin | nsubj |
| 15 | sin | sin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 sin | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tongue | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sin | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 keep | aux |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 curb | det |
| 25 | curb | curb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 mouth | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 me | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 me | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wicked | det |
| 32 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 keep | advcl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wicked | cop |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 wicked | root |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | future | I | heed | my ways | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to way=Destination | |||
| 3 | not sin | present | I | with my tongue | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | future | I | a curb | my mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent curb=Theme upon mouth=Location | |||
| 5 | is | present | I not said here | wicked 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
אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה דְרָכַי֮ מֵחֲט֪וֹא בִלְשׁ֫וֹנִ֥י אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה לְפִ֥י מַחְס֑וֹם בְּעֹ֖ד רָשָׁ֣ע לְנֶגְדִּֽי׃
Psalms 39:2: 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:639 of Mova's parse database.
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