Psalms 59:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
A Psalm of David; Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
Who acts: Saul, they · What happens: send, watch, kill · To what, where: house, Saul
This is Psalms 59:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Saul, they), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Psalm | det |
| 2 | Psalm | Psalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 David | case |
| 4 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Psalm | nmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 Michtam | punct |
| 6 | Michtam | Michtam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Psalm | appos |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 9 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Psalm | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watched | nsubj |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watched | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 watched | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Psalm | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- fragment
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=frag
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Saul | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | past | they | the house | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | they not said here | Saul | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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
לַמְנַצֵּ֣חַ אַל־תַּשְׁחֵת֮ לְדָוִ֪ד מִ֫כְתָּ֥ם בִּשְׁלֹ֥חַ שָׁא֑וּל וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֥וּ אֶת־הַ֝בַּ֗יִת לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃
Psalms 59:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- For the Leader; Al-tashheth.
- A Psalm of David; Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:959 of Mova's parse database.
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