Psalms 7:3 · JPS 1917
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Who acts: LORD, none · What happens: tear, rend, be, deliver · To what, where: soul, pieces
This is Psalms 7:3 · 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 (LORD, none), 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 | Lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 3 tear | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tear | nsubj |
| 3 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 soul | nmod:poss |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tear | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 lion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rending | punct |
| 10 | rending | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tear | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rending | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rending | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 is | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rending | advcl |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 is | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 deliver | mark |
| 20 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 none | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | infinitive | LORD | my soul | like a lion | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location soul=Theme | |||
| 2 | rend | gerund | LORD not said here | soul | pieces | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | present | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deliver | to-infinitive | none not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃
Psalms 7:3: 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:68 of Mova's parse database.
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