Psalms 39:3 · JPS 1917

I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, hold, have, pacify, pain · To what, where: peace, comfort, pain, check

This is Psalms 39:3 · 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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumb	cop
3	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 silence	case
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dumb	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 held	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 held	nsubj
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumb	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 peace	nmod:poss
10	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 held	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 comfort	det
14	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pain	nmod:poss
18	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 held	aux:pass
20	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 held	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 check	case
22	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dumb	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			with silence; dumb property	tree rules
2	hold	past	I	my peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
3	have	past	I not said here	no comfort			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient
4	hold	past · passive		my pain	check		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in check=Location
5	pacify		my				nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent
6	pain		my				nom pain «state transitive»: 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

נֶאֱלַ֣מְתִּי ד֭וּמִיָּה הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִי מִטּ֑וֹב וּכְאֵבִ֥י נֶעְכָּֽר׃

Psalms 39:3: 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:640 of Mova's parse database.

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