Psalms 40:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be told.
Who acts: I, thoughts · What happens: declare, speak, be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 40:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, thoughts), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 declare | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 declare | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 declare | aux |
| 4 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 more | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 speak | cc |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 declare | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 speak | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 more | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 more | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 more | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 more | 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 | declare speech: other a condition, not said to happen | would | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | of thoughts = thought | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | thoughts = thought | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | can · passive | thoughts = thought not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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
רַבּ֤וֹת עָשִׂ֨יתָ ׀ אַתָּ֤ה ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהַי֮ נִֽפְלְאֹתֶ֥יךָ וּמַחְשְׁבֹתֶ֗יךָ אֵ֫לֵ֥ינוּ אֵ֤ין ׀ עֲרֹ֬ךְ אֵלֶ֗יךָ אַגִּ֥ידָה וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה עָ֝צְמ֗וּ מִסַּפֵּֽר׃
Psalms 40:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works, and Thy thoughts toward us; there is none to be compared unto Thee!
- If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be told.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:660 of Mova's parse database.
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