Psalms 56:2 · JPS 1917
Be gracious unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; all the day he fighting oppresseth me.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: be, swallow up, fight, oppress · To what, where: me
This is Psalms 56:2 · 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, man), 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 | Be | be | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 gracious | cop |
| 2 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gracious | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 God | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 God | discourse |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gracious | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swallow | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 swallow | mark |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallow | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | _ | 12 swallow | aux |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gracious | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 swallow | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 swallow | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 oppresseth | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 oppresseth | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fighting | nsubj |
| 20 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 oppresseth | advcl |
| 21 | oppresseth | oppress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gracious | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 oppresseth | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gracious | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | unto me; God vocative; gracious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow up | would | man | me | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | oppress | present | me | day | 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
חָנֵּ֣נִי אֱ֭לֹהִים כִּֽי־שְׁאָפַ֣נִי אֱנ֑וֹשׁ כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם לֹחֵ֥ם יִלְחָצֵֽנִי׃
Psalms 56:2: 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:918 of Mova's parse database.
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