--- title: Psalms 127:2 — It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep. Who acts: ye, watchman. Psalms 127:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/127/) / 127:2 # Psalms 127:2 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** ye, watchman · **What happens:** be, rise, sit up, eat, give · **To what, where:** bread, sleep This is Psalms 127:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — ye, watchman — and what happens in the verse to bread, sleep, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. שָׁ֤וְא לָכֶ֨ם ׀ מַשְׁכִּ֪ימֵי ק֡וּם מְאַֽחֲרֵי־שֶׁ֗בֶת אֹ֭כְלֵי לֶ֣חֶם הָעֲצָבִ֑ים כֵּ֤ן יִתֵּ֖ן לִֽידִיד֣וֹ שֵׁנָֽא׃ [It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2398/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:2247 # text = שָׁ֤וְא לָכֶ֨ם ׀ מַשְׁכִּ֪ימֵי ק֡וּם מְאַֽחֲרֵי־שֶׁ֗בֶת אֹ֭כְלֵי לֶ֣חֶם הָעֲצָבִ֑ים כֵּ֤ן יִתֵּ֖ן לִֽידִיד֣וֹ שֵׁנָֽא׃ # verse = PSA.127.2 1 שָׁ֤וְא שָׁוְא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Gloss=vanity|Ref=PSA_127:2!1|MId=o191270020011|Strong=7723 2-3 לָכֶ֨ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 ל לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=[belongs].to|Ref=PSA_127:2!2|MId=o191270020021|Strong=3807a 3 ָכֶ֨ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 0 root _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_127:2!2|MId=o191270020022|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_127:2!2 5 מַשְׁכִּ֪ימֵי שָׁכַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur 3 appos _ Gloss=[who].rise.early|Ref=PSA_127:2!3|MId=o191270020031|Strong=7925|Frame=AA:191270020022;A0:191270020041;|Type=participle_active 6 ק֡וּם קוּם VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).to.rise|Ref=PSA_127:2!4|MId=o191270020041|Strong=6965|Frame=A0:191270020022;|Type=infinitive_construct 7 מְאַֽחֲרֵי־ אָחַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=[who].delay|Ref=PSA_127:2!5|MId=o191270020051|Strong=0309|Frame=A0:191270020022;A1:191270020061;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No 8 שֶׁ֗בֶת יָשַׁב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).to.sit|Ref=PSA_127:2!6|MId=o191270020061|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:191270020022;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 אֹ֭כְלֵי אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=[who].eat|Ref=PSA_127:2!7|MId=o191270020071|Strong=0398|Frame=A0:191270020022;A1:191270020081;|Type=participle_active 10 לֶ֣חֶם לֶחֶם NOUN _ Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).the.bread|Ref=PSA_127:2!8|MId=o191270020081|Strong=3899 11-12 הָעֲצָבִ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=PSA_127:2!9|MId=o191270020091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 עֲצָבִ֑ים עֶצֶב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=hard.labors|Ref=PSA_127:2!9|MId=o191270020092|Strong=6089a 13 כֵּ֤ן כֵּן ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=thus|Ref=PSA_127:2!10|MId=o191270020101|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative 14 יִתֵּ֖ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 parataxis _ Gloss=he.gives|Ref=PSA_127:2!11|MId=o191270020111|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:191270010141;A1:191270020131;|Type=yiqtol 15-17 לִֽידִיד֣וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לִֽ לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_127:2!12|MId=o191270020121|Strong=3807a 16 ידִיד יָדִיד ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=his.beloved|Ref=PSA_127:2!12|MId=o191270020122|Strong=3039|Type=adjective 17 ֣וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[one]|Ref=PSA_127:2!12|MId=o191270020123|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 18 שֵׁנָֽא שֵׁנָא NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=sleep|Ref=PSA_127:2!13|MId=o191270020131|Strong=8142a|SpaceAfter=No 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=PSA_127:2!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מַשְׁכִּימֵי *\[who\] rise early* | participle active · hiphil | קוּם *(of) to rise* | | | ָכֶם *you* | | קוּם *(of) to rise* | infinitive construct · qal | ָכֶם *you* | | | | | מְאַֽחֲרֵי־ *\[who\] delay* | participle active · piel | ָכֶם *you* | שֶׁבֶת *(of) to sit* | | | | שֶׁבֶת *(of) to sit* | infinitive construct · qal | ָכֶם *you* | | | | | אֹכְלֵי *\[who\] eat* | participle active · qal | ָכֶם *you* | לֶחֶם *(of) the bread* | | | | יִתֵּן *he gives* | yiqtol · qal | | שֵׁנָֽא *sleep* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} עַל מַגָן תִּטְלְחוּן לְכוֹן דִתְקַדְמוּן בְּצַפְרָא לְמֶעְבַּד לְכוֹן חֲטוֹף דִי מְאַחְרֵן וְתֵתְבוּן לְמֶעְבָּד זָנוּ דְאָכְלִין מְזוֹנֵי דְמִסְכְּנִין דְלָעוּ בְהוֹן עַל יָאוּת וְכֵיוָן יִתֵּן יְיָ לְרָחֲמֵיהּ דִמְכָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2398/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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