Psalms 40:13 · JPS 1917

For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

Who acts: innumerable evils, iniquities, I, heart · What happens: compass, overtake, not be, look up, be, fail · To what, where: me

This is Psalms 40:13 · 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 (innumerable evils, iniquities, I, heart), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 compassed	mark
2	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evils	amod
3	evils	evil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 compassed	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 compassed	aux
5	compassed	compass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 overtaken	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 compassed	obj
7	about	about	ADV	_	5 compassed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overtaken	punct
9	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Plur Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 iniquities	nmod:poss
10	iniquities	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 overtaken	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 overtaken	aux
12	overtaken	overtake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 overtaken	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 able	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 able	advmod
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 overtaken	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 look	compound:prt
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 more	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 more	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 more	cop
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 overtaken	parataxis
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 hairs	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hairs	det
30	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 more	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hairs	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 failed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 failed	cc
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 heart	nmod:poss
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 failed	nsubj
38	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 failed	aux
39	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 overtaken	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 failed	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 overtaken	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	compass	present · perfect	innumerable evils	me	about property	tree rules
2	overtake	present · perfect	mine iniquities	me		tree rules
3	not is	present	I		able property	tree rules
4	look up	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	present	iniquities = iniquity		than the hairs of my head; more property	tree rules
6	fail	present · perfect	my heart	me		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality

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

כִּ֤י אָפְפ֥וּ־עָלַ֨י ׀ רָע֡וֹת עַד־אֵ֬ין מִסְפָּ֗ר הִשִּׂיג֣וּנִי עֲ֭וֺנֹתַי וְלֹא־יָכֹ֣לְתִּי לִרְא֑וֹת עָצְמ֥וּ מִשַּֽׂעֲר֥וֹת רֹ֝אשִׁ֗י וְלִבִּ֥י עֲזָבָֽנִי׃

Psalms 40:13: 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:667 of Mova's parse database.

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