Psalms 51:8 · JPS 1917
Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart.
Who acts: Thou, me · What happens: desire, make, know · To what, where: truth, inward parts, me, wisdom, inmost heart
This is Psalms 51:8 · 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 (Thou, me), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 desirest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 desirest | nsubj |
| 4 | desirest | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desirest | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 parts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parts | det |
| 8 | inward | inward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parts | amod |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 desirest | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 desirest | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 therefore | punct |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 make | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 18 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 20 | mine | mine | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heart | amod |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desirest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | Thou | truth | the inward parts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot truth=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | me | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | me not said here | wisdom | mine inmost heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
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
הֵן־אֱ֭מֶת חָפַ֣צְתָּ בַטֻּח֑וֹת וּ֝בְסָתֻ֗ם חָכְמָ֥ה תוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃
Psalms 51:8: 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:849 of Mova's parse database.
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