Psalms 59:12 · JPS 1917

Slay them not, lest my people forget, make them wander to and fro by Thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Who acts: you, people, nations · What happens: not slay, forget, make, wander, bring down · To what, where: nations

This is Psalms 59:12 · 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, people, nations), 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	Slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Slay	obj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Slay	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 forget	mark
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 forget	nsubj
8	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	1 Slay	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Slay	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	to	to	ADV	_	12 wander	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fro	cc
15	fro	fro	ADV	_	13 to	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 power	case
17	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 power	nmod:poss
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wander	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bring	cc
21	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 make	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 bring	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Lord	punct
25	O	o	INTJ	_	26 Lord	discourse
26	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Slay	vocative
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shield	nmod:poss
28	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Lord	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slay	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not slay	imperative	you not said here	nations = nation	Lord vocative	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	forget	present	my people			tree rules
3	make	infinitive	you not said here	nations = nation		tree rules
4	wander	infinitive	nations = nation not said here		by Thy power	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by power=Trajectory
5	bring down	infinitive	you not said here	nations = nation		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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

אַל־תַּהַרְגֵ֤ם ׀ פֶּֽן־יִשְׁכְּח֬וּ עַמִּ֗י הֲנִיעֵ֣מוֹ בְ֭חֵילְךָ וְהוֹרִידֵ֑מוֹ מָֽגִנֵּ֣נוּ אֲדֹנָֽי׃

Psalms 59:12: 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:970 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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