Psalms 51:6 · JPS 1917
Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in Thy sight; that Thou mayest be justified when Thou speakest, and be in the right when Thou judgest.
Who acts: I, Thou, Thy · What happens: sin, do, be, justify, speak, judge · To what, where: that, sight, Thou, right · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Psalms 51:6 · 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 (I, Thou, Thy), 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 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 2 Thee | case |
| 2 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 sinned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thee | punct |
| 4 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Thee | conj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Thee | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thee | punct |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sinned | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sinned | nsubj |
| 9 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sinned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sinned | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 done | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 evil | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 evil | cop |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 that | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 sight | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 evil | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 justified | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 justified | mark |
| 22 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 justified | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 justified | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 justified | aux:pass |
| 25 | justified | justify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sinned | conj |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 speakest | mark |
| 27 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 speakest | nsubj |
| 28 | speakest | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 justified | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 right | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 right | cc |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 right | cop |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 right | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 right | det |
| 34 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 justified | conj |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 judgest | mark |
| 36 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 judgest | nsubj |
| 37 | judgest | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 right | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sinned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sin | present · perfect | I | against Thee | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | I not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Thy sight | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | justify speech: other | may · passive | Thou | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present | Thou | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | the right | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | judge | present | Thou | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sight | Thy | nom sight «cognition 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
לְךָ֤ לְבַדְּךָ֨ ׀ חָטָאתִי֮ וְהָרַ֥ע בְּעֵינֶ֗יךָ עָ֫שִׂ֥יתִי לְ֭מַעַן תִּצְדַּ֥ק בְּדָבְרֶ֗ךָ תִּזְכֶּ֥ה בְשָׁפְטֶֽךָ׃
Psalms 51:6: 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:847 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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