Psalms 58:8 · JPS 1917

Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Who acts: you, teeth, water, LORD · What happens: let, melt away, run, aim, cut off · To what, where: teeth, arrows

This is Psalms 58:8 · 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, teeth, water, LORD), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 melt	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 runneth	nsubj
8	runneth	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 water	acl:relcl
9	apace	apace	ADV	_	8 runneth	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 aimeth	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 aimeth	nsubj
13	aimeth	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 let	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arrows	nmod:poss
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 aimeth	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aimeth	punct
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 cut	mark
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 as	fixed
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	aux:pass
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 let	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 cut	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	teeth = tooth		tree rules
2	melt away	infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here		as water; away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	run	present	water		apace property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	aim	present	LORD	LORD's arrows		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme
5	let	infinitive		teeth = tooth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	cut off	past · passive		teeth = tooth		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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

יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗יו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

Psalms 58:8: 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:953 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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