Psalms 40:12 · JPS 1917
Thou, O LORD, wilt not withhold Thy compassions from me; let Thy mercy and Thy truth continually preserve me.
Who acts: Thou, mercy · What happens: not withhold, let, preserve · To what, where: compassions, mercy, me
This is Psalms 40:12 · 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, mercy), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 withhold | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 LORD | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 LORD | discourse |
| 4 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thou | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thou | punct |
| 6 | wilt | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 withhold | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 withhold | advmod |
| 8 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 compassions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | compassions | compassion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 withhold | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 withhold | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 withhold | conj |
| 15 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 truth | cc |
| 18 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 truth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mercy | conj |
| 20 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 21 preserve | advmod |
| 21 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 preserve | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 withhold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not withhold | future | Thou | Thy compassions | from me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Thou not said here | Thy mercy and Thy truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | preserve | infinitive | Thy mercy and Thy truth not said here | me | continually property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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
אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה לֹא־תִכְלָ֣א רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּ֑נִּי חַסְדְּךָ֥ וַ֝אֲמִתְּךָ֗ תָּמִ֥יד יִצְּרֽוּנִי׃
Psalms 40:12: 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:666 of Mova's parse database.
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