Psalms 8:4 · JPS 1917
When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;
Who acts: I, Thou, fingers · What happens: behold, establish, work · To what, where: heavens, work
This is Psalms 8:4 · 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 (I, Thou, fingers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 behold | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 behold | nsubj |
| 3 | behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | acl |
| 4 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 heavens | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 behold | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fingers | case |
| 10 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 work | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moon | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stars | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stars | det |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moon | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 established | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 established | obj |
| 20 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 established | nsubj |
| 21 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 established | aux |
| 22 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 work | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | present | I | Thy heavens | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | establish | present · perfect | Thou | the work of Thy fingers and the moon and the stars | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work | Thy fingers | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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
כִּֽי־אֶרְאֶ֣ה שָׁ֭מֶיךָ מַעֲשֵׂ֣י אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ יָרֵ֥חַ וְ֝כוֹכָבִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר כּוֹנָֽנְתָּה׃
Psalms 8:4: 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:88 of Mova's parse database.
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