Psalms 42:4 · JPS 1917
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say unto me all the day: 'Where is Thy God?'
Who acts: tears · What happens: be, say · To what, where: food day, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 42:4 · 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 (tears), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 day | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 day | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 night | cc |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | advcl |
| 14 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 say | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 God | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 God | punct |
| 21 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 God | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 God | cop |
| 23 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 God | nmod:poss |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 say | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 God | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 God | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | My tears | my food day and night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | tears = tear | day | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Thy God | tree rules |
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
הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֬י דִמְעָתִ֣י לֶ֭חֶם יוֹמָ֣ם וָלָ֑יְלָה בֶּאֱמֹ֥ר אֵלַ֥י כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם אַיֵּ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃
Psalms 42:4: 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:692 of Mova's parse database.
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