Psalms 51:9 · JPS 1917
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: purge, be, wash · To what, where: me
This is Psalms 51:9 · 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 (you, I), 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 | Purge | purge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Purge | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hyssop | case |
| 4 | hyssop | hyssop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Purge | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clean | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clean | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 clean | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 clean | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 clean | cop |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Purge | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 wash | punct |
| 12 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Purge | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wash | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whiter | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 whiter | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 whiter | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 whiter | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 whiter | cop |
| 19 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 wash | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 snow | case |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whiter | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Purge | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purge | imperative | you not said here | me | with hyssop | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent i=Source | |||
| 2 | is | shall | I | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | than snow; white property | tree rules |
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
תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃
Psalms 51:9: 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:850 of Mova's parse database.
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