Psalms 49:8 · JPS 1917
No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him —
Who acts: man · What happens: redeem, give · To what, where: brother, ransom, God
This is Psalms 49:8 · 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 (man), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 redeem | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 redeem | aux |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 means | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 means | det |
| 6 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 redeem | obl |
| 7 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 redeem | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 redeem | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ransom | det |
| 16 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 redeem | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redeem | can | no man | man's brother | by any means | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | no man not said here | a ransom | God | for man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent ransom=Theme to god=Recipient for he=Asset |
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
אָ֗ח לֹא־פָדֹ֣ה יִפְדֶּ֣ה אִ֑ישׁ לֹא־יִתֵּ֖ן לֵאלֹהִ֣ים כָּפְרֽוֹ׃
Psalms 49:8: 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:803 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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