Psalms 39:7 · JPS 1917

Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Who acts: man, breadths · What happens: walk, be, heap up, not know, gather · To what, where: turmoil, riches, breadths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Psalms 39:7 · 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 (man, breadths), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	3 walketh	advmod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walketh	nsubj
3	walketh	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 semblance	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 semblance	det
6	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 semblance	amod
7	semblance	semblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walketh	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 walketh	punct
9	surely	surely	ADV	_	15 turmoil	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 vanity	case
11	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turmoil	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turmoil	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 turmoil	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 turmoil	case
15	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walketh	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 heapeth	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heapeth	nsubj
18	heapeth	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walketh	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 heapeth	compound:prt
20	riches	riches	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heapeth	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knoweth	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knoweth	cc
23	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heapeth	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knoweth	advmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 gather	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 gather	aux
27	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knoweth	ccomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gather	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walketh	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	walk	present	man			as a mere semblance; surely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	breadths = breadth		turmoil	for vanity; surely property	tree rules
3	heap up	present	man	riches			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent riches=Theme
4	not know	present	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	gather	shall		breadths = breadth			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

אַךְ־בְּצֶ֤לֶם ׀ יִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־אִ֗ישׁ אַךְ־הֶ֥בֶל יֶהֱמָי֑וּן יִ֝צְבֹּ֗ר וְֽלֹא־יֵדַ֥ע מִי־אֹסְפָֽם׃

Psalms 39:7: 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:644 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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