Psalms 8:5 · JPS 1917
What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?
Who acts: man, Thou · What happens: be, think · To what, where: son
This is Psalms 8:5 · 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 (man, Thou), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mindful | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 mindful | mark |
| 6 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 mindful | nsubj |
| 7 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mindful | cop |
| 8 | mindful | mindful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mindful | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 son | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thinkest | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 thinkest | obl |
| 19 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 thinkest | nsubj |
| 20 | thinkest | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thinkest | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thinkest | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Thou | of man; mindful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Thou | the son of man | man obl | vn focus-87.1-1 «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
מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־תִזְכְּרֶ֑נּוּ וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם כִּ֣י תִפְקְדֶֽנּוּ׃
Psalms 8:5: 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:89 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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