--- title: Psalms 57:5 — My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame; ev… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame; even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Who acts: soul, I, teeth. Psalms 57:5 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.57.5/) [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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/57/) / 57:5 # Psalms 57:5 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** soul, I, teeth · **What happens:** be, lie down · **To what, where:** spears This is Psalms 57:5 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 — soul, I, teeth — and what happens in the verse to spears, 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. נַפְשִׁ֤י ׀ בְּת֥וֹךְ לְבָאִם֮ אֶשְׁכְּבָ֪ה לֹ֫הֲטִ֥ים בְּֽנֵי־אָדָ֗ם שִׁ֭נֵּיהֶם חֲנִ֣ית וְחִצִּ֑ים וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗ם חֶ֣רֶב חַדָּֽה׃ [My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame; even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.936/) ## 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:870 # text = נַפְשִׁ֤י ׀ בְּת֥וֹךְ לְבָאִם֮ אֶשְׁכְּבָ֪ה לֹ֫הֲטִ֥ים בְּֽנֵי־אָדָ֗ם שִׁ֭נֵּיהֶם חֲנִ֣ית וְחִצִּ֑ים וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗ם חֶ֣רֶב חַדָּֽה׃ # verse = PSA.57.5 1-2 נַפְשִׁ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=self|Ref=PSA_57:5!1|MId=o190570050011|Strong=5315 2 ִ֤י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_57:5!1|MId=o190570050012|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_57:5!1 4-5 בְּת֥וֹךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=[is]|Ref=PSA_57:5!2|MId=o190570050021|Strong=0871a 5 ת֥וֹךְ תָּוֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=among|Ref=PSA_57:5!2|MId=o190570050022|Strong=8432 6 לְבָאִם֮ לָבָא NOUN _ Number=Plur 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=lions|Ref=PSA_57:5!3|MId=o190570050031|Strong=3833b 7 אֶשְׁכְּבָ֪ה שָׁכַב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 5 parataxis _ Gloss=I.lie.with|Ref=PSA_57:5!4|MId=o190570050041|Strong=7901|Frame=A0:190570010042;|Type=cohortative 8 לֹ֫הֲטִ֥ים לָהַט VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 7 obl:npmod _ Gloss=[those.who].devour|Ref=PSA_57:5!5|MId=o190570050051|Strong=3857a|Frame=A0:190570050031;|Type=participle_active 9 בְּֽנֵי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 dislocated _ Gloss=[the].children|Ref=PSA_57:5!6|MId=o190570050061|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 10 אָדָ֗ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.humankind|Ref=PSA_57:5!7|MId=o190570050071|Strong=0120 11-12 שִׁ֭נֵּיהֶם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 שִׁ֭נֵּי שֵׁן NOUN _ Number=Dual 13 nsubj _ Gloss=teeth|Ref=PSA_57:5!8|MId=o190570050081|Strong=8127 12 הֶם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_57:5!8|MId=o190570050082|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 13 חֲנִ֣ית חֲנִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Gloss=[are].a.spear|Ref=PSA_57:5!9|MId=o190570050091|Strong=2595 14-15 וְחִצִּ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_57:5!10|MId=o190570050101|Strong=2050b 15 חִצִּ֑ים חֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 conj _ Gloss=arrows|Ref=PSA_57:5!10|MId=o190570050102|Strong=2671 16-18 וּ֝לְשׁוֹנָ֗ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וּ֝ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_57:5!11|MId=o190570050111|Strong=2050b 17 לְשׁוֹנ לָשׁוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=tongue|Ref=PSA_57:5!11|MId=o190570050112|Strong=3956 18 ָ֗ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_57:5!11|MId=o190570050113|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 19 חֶ֣רֶב חֶרֶב NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 conj _ Gloss=[is].a.sword|Ref=PSA_57:5!12|MId=o190570050121|Strong=2719 20 חַדָּֽה חַד ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 19 amod _ Gloss=sharp|Ref=PSA_57:5!13|MId=o190570050131|Strong=2299|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=PSA_57:5!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אֶשְׁכְּבָה *I lie with* | cohortative · qal | | | | | | לֹהֲטִים *\[those who\] devour* | participle active · qal | לְבָאִם *lions* | | | | 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} נַפְשִׁי חָיְדָא כַּד בִּמְצַע שַׁלְהוֹבִין אֶדְמוֹךְ בֵּינֵי גוּמְרִין דִי מְלָהַטִין בְּנֵי נָשָׁא דְכַבֵּיהוֹן הֵיךְ מוּרְנִיתָא וְגָרְרִין וְלִישָׁנְהוֹן הֵיךְ סַיְפָא חֲרִיפָא: 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. [My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame; even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.936/) **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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