--- title: Psalms 137:6 — Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy. Who acts: you, I, my. 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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 — you, I, my — and what happens in the verse to tongue, thee, Jerusalem, chiefest joy, 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. תִּדְבַּ֥ק־לְשׁוֹנִ֨י ׀ לְחִכִּי֮ אִם־לֹ֪א אֶ֫זְכְּרֵ֥כִי אִם־לֹ֣א אַ֭עֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֑ם עַ֝֗ל רֹ֣אשׁ שִׂמְחָתִֽי׃ [Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2510/) ## 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:2352 # text = תִּדְבַּ֥ק־לְשׁוֹנִ֨י ׀ לְחִכִּי֮ אִם־לֹ֪א אֶ֫זְכְּרֵ֥כִי אִם־לֹ֣א אַ֭עֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֑ם עַ֝֗ל רֹ֣אשׁ שִׂמְחָתִֽי׃ # verse = PSA.137.6 1 תִּדְבַּ֥ק־ דָּבַק VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=may.it.cleave|Ref=PSA_137:6!1|MId=o191370060011|Strong=1692|Frame=A0:191370060021;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 2-3 לְשׁוֹנִ֨י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לְשׁוֹנ לָשׁוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=tongue|Ref=PSA_137:6!2|MId=o191370060021|Strong=3956 3 ִ֨י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_137:6!2|MId=o191370060022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_137:6!2 5-7 לְחִכִּי֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_137:6!3|MId=o191370060031|Strong=3807a 6 חִכּ חֵךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=palate|Ref=PSA_137:6!3|MId=o191370060032|Strong=2441 7 ִי֮ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_137:6!3|MId=o191370060033|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 8 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=PSA_137:6!4|MId=o191370060041|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 9 לֹ֪א לֹא ADV _ _ 10 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_137:6!5|MId=o191370060051|Strong=3808|Type=negative 10-11 אֶ֫זְכְּרֵ֥כִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 אֶ֫זְכְּר זָכַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 1 parataxis _ Gloss=I|Ref=PSA_137:6!6|MId=o191370060061|Strong=2142|Frame=A0:191370010083;A1:191370060062;|Type=yiqtol 11 ֵ֥כִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Gloss=will.remember.you|Ref=PSA_137:6!6|MId=o191370060062|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 12 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=PSA_137:6!7|MId=o191370060071|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 13 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_137:6!8|MId=o191370060081|Strong=3808|Type=negative 14 אַ֭עֲלֶה עָלָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1 1 parataxis _ Gloss=I.will.lift.up|Ref=PSA_137:6!9|MId=o191370060091|Strong=5927|Frame=AA:191370010083;A0:191370060111;|Type=yiqtol 15 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PSA_137:6!10|MId=o191370060101|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 16 יְרוּשָׁלִַ֑ם יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם PROPN _ _ 14 obj _ Gloss=Jerusalem|Ref=PSA_137:6!11|MId=o191370060111|Strong=3389 17 עַ֝֗ל עַל ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=above|Ref=PSA_137:6!12|MId=o191370060121|Strong=5921 18 רֹ֣אשׁ רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=the.chief|Ref=PSA_137:6!13|MId=o191370060131|Strong=7218 19-20 שִׂמְחָתִֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 שִׂמְחָת שִׂמְחָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.joy|Ref=PSA_137:6!14|MId=o191370060141|Strong=8057 20 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_137:6!14|MId=o191370060142|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=PSA_137:6!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּדְבַּק־ *may it cleave* | yiqtol · qal | לְשׁוֹנ *tongue* | | | | | **not** אֶזְכְּר *I* | yiqtol · qal | | ֵכִי *will remember you* | | | | **not** אַעֲלֶה *I will lift up* | yiqtol · hiphil | יְרוּשָׁלִַם *Jerusalem* | | | | 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} תִּדְבַּק לִישָׁנִי לְמוֹרִיגִי אִין לָא אִדְכַּר יָתִיכִי אִין לָא אַסִיק דָכְרָן יְרוּשְׁלֶם עַל שֵׁרוּי חֶדְוַת בֵּית שַׁמְשָׁי: 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. [Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2510/) **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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