Psalms 39:6 · JPS 1917

Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

Who acts: Thou, age, man · What happens: make, be · To what, where: vanity, best estate

This is Psalms 39:6 · 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 (Thou, age, man), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Behold	punct
3	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 made	nsubj
4	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 days	nmod:poss
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 breadths	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breadths	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hand	punct
11	breadths	breadth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 nothing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nothing	cc
14	mine	mine	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 age	nmod:poss
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 nothing	cop
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 nothing	case
18	nothing	mine	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 made	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 Thee	case
20	Thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 nothing	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 vanity	punct
22	surely	surely	ADV	_	31 vanity	advmod
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanity	nsubj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 estate	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 estate	nmod:poss
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 estate	amod
28	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanity	obl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 vanity	cop
30	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	31 vanity	advmod
31	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: express
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=express

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect	Thou			day	as hand breadths	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	present	mine age			before Thee	as nothing	tree rules
3	is a	present	every man	vanity	man's best estate		altogether, surely 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

הִנֵּ֤ה טְפָח֨וֹת ׀ נָ֘תַ֤תָּה יָמַ֗י וְחֶלְדִּ֣י כְאַ֣יִן נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ אַ֥ךְ כָּֽל־הֶ֥בֶל כָּל־אָ֝דָ֗ם נִצָּ֥ב סֶֽלָה׃

Psalms 39:6: 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:643 of Mova's parse database.

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