Psalms 39:4 · JPS 1917
My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue:
Who acts: heart, I, fire · What happens: wax, muse, kindle, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 39:4 · 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 (heart, I, fire), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waxed | nsubj |
| 3 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waxed | xcomp |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 waxed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kindled | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 musing | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 musing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 musing | aux |
| 11 | musing | muse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 waxed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 musing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kindled | nsubj |
| 15 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 musing | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoke | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 spoke | advmod |
| 18 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waxed | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tongue | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoke | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 waxed | 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 | wax | past | My heart | within me; hot property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | muse | past · progressive | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kindle | past | the fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | I | then | with my tongue | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tongue=Co-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
חַם־לִבִּ֨י ׀ בְּקִרְבִּ֗י בַּהֲגִיגִ֥י תִבְעַר־אֵ֑שׁ דִּ֝בַּ֗רְתִּי בִּלְשֽׁוֹנִי׃
Psalms 39:4: 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:641 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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