Psalms 58:9 · JPS 1917

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

Who acts: you, teeth, snail, untimely births · What happens: let, be, melt, pass away, not see · To what, where: teeth, sun.

This is Psalms 58:9 · 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, snail, untimely births), 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	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 snail	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 snail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snail	det
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	xcomp
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 melteth	nsubj
8	melteth	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snail	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passeth	cc
10	passeth	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 melteth	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 passeth	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 births	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 births	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 births	det
15	untimely	untimely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 births	amod
16	births	birth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 woman	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 births	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seen	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 births	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun.	det
26	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj

Pragmatics

form: command
act: express
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=express

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	teeth = tooth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here		as a snail	tree rules
3	melt	present	a snail			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	pass away	present	a snail not said here		away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	not see	present · perfect	the untimely births of a woman	the sun.		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus

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

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Psalms 58:9: 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:954 of Mova's parse database.

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