Psalms 52:4 · JPS 1917
Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Who acts: tongue · What happens: devise, work · To what, where: destruction
This is Psalms 52:4 · 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 (tongue), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deviseth | nsubj |
| 3 | deviseth | devise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deviseth | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 razor | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 razor | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 razor | det |
| 8 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 razor | amod |
| 9 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deviseth | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 working | punct |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 deviseth | advcl |
| 12 | deceitfully | deceitfully | ADV | _ | 11 working | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deviseth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devise | present | Thy tongue | destruction | like a sharp razor | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Patient | |||
| 2 | work | gerund | Thy tongue not said here | deceitfully property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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
הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃
Psalms 52:4: 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:866 of Mova's parse database.
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