Psalms 43:1 · JPS 1917

Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Who acts: Thou, my · What happens: be, plead, deliver, cause · To what, where: judge, cause, me

This is Psalms 43:1 · 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, my), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 judge	cop
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 judge	nsubj
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 judge	nmod:poss
4	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 God	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 God	discourse
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 judge	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plead	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plead	cc
10	plead	plead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 judge	conj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cause	nmod:poss
12	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plead	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 nation	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nation	det
15	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nation	amod
16	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plead	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 deliver	punct
18	O	o	INTJ	_	19 deliver	discourse
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 judge	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 deliver	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	26 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
23	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 unjust	cc
25	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deceitful	conj
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deliver	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 judge	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	Thou	my judge	God vocative	tree rules
2	plead speech: request	infinitive	Thou not said here	my cause	against a ungodly nation	tree rules
3	deliver	infinitive		me	from the deceitful man	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from man=Initial_Location
4	cause		my			nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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

שָׁפְטֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ וְרִ֘יבָ֤ה רִיבִ֗י מִגּ֥וֹי לֹא־חָסִ֑יד מֵ֤אִישׁ־מִרְמָ֖ה וְעַוְלָ֣ה תְפַלְּטֵֽנִי׃

Psalms 43:1: 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:704 of Mova's parse database.

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