Psalms 42:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?
Who acts: thou · What happens: cast down, moan · To what, where: thou
This is Psalms 42:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (thou), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cast | advmod |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | aux:pass |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 cast | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soul | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 soul | discourse |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soul | nmod:poss |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moanest | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 moanest | advmod |
| 13 | moanest | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | conj |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 moanest | nsubj |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 moanest | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=wh
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast down | present · passive | thou | my soul vocative; down property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | moan | present | thou | within me | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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
מַה־תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ וּֽמַה־תֶּהֱמִ֪י עָ֫לָ֥י הוֹחִ֣ילִי לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים כִּי־ע֣וֹד אוֹדֶ֑נּוּ יְשׁוּעֹ֥ת פָּ֝נַ֗י וֵֽאלֹהָֽי׃
Psalms 42:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?
- Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:702 of Mova's parse database.
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