Psalms 59:16 · JPS 1917
They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill.
Who acts: nations · What happens: wander up, devour, tarry, not have · To what, where: fill
This is Psalms 59:16 · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wander | nsubj |
| 2 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 wander | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 down | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 wander | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 devour | mark |
| 7 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wander | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tarry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tarry | cc |
| 10 | tarry | tarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wander | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tarry | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tarry | advcl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fill | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wander | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander up | present | nations = nation | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | devour | to-infinitive | nations = nation not said here | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tarry | present | nations = nation not said here | night | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not have a condition, not said to happen | present | nations = nation | nations's fill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
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
הֵ֭מָּה יְנִיע֣וּן לֶאֱכֹ֑ל אִם־לֹ֥א יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּ וַיָּלִֽינוּ׃
Psalms 59:16: 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:974 of Mova's parse database.
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