--- title: Psalms 58:9 — Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the unti… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun. Who acts: you, teeth, snail, untimely births. Psalms 58:9 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.58.9/) [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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/58/) / 58:9 # Psalms 58:9 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** you, teeth, snail, untimely births · **What happens:** let, be, melt, pass away, not see · **To what, where:** teeth, sun. This is Psalms 58:9 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 — you, teeth, snail, untimely births — and what happens in the verse to teeth, sun., 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. כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ [Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.954/) ## 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:886 # text = כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ # verse = PSA.58.9 1 כְּמ֣וֹ כְּמוֹ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=PSA_58:9!1|MId=o190580090011|Strong=3644 2 שַׁ֭בְּלוּל שַׁבְּלוּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=a.snail|Ref=PSA_58:9!2|MId=o190580090021|Strong=7642 3 תֶּ֣מֶס תֶּמֶס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obl _ Gloss=[which].melting.away|Ref=PSA_58:9!3|MId=o190580090031|Strong=8557 4 יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ הָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 acl _ Gloss=it.goes|Ref=PSA_58:9!4|MId=o190580090041|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:190580090021;|Type=yiqtol 5 נֵ֥פֶל נֵפֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=a.miscarriage|Ref=PSA_58:9!5|MId=o190580090051|Strong=5309 6 אֵ֝֗שֶׁת אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.woman|Ref=PSA_58:9!6|MId=o190580090061|Strong=0802 7 בַּל־ בַּל ADV _ _ 8 advmod _ Gloss=(of).[which].not|Ref=PSA_58:9!7|MId=o190580090071|Strong=1077|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 8 חָ֥זוּ חָזָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 5 acl _ Gloss=they.have.seen|Ref=PSA_58:9!8|MId=o190580090081|Strong=2372|Frame=A0:190580090051;A1:190580090091;|Type=qatal 9 שָֽׁמֶשׁ שֶׁמֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=[the].sun|Ref=PSA_58:9!9|MId=o190580090091|Strong=8121|SpaceAfter=No 10 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 9 punct _ Ref=PSA_58:9!9 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַהֲלֹךְ *it goes* | yiqtol · qal | שַׁבְּלוּל *a snail* | | | | | **not** חָזוּ *they have seen* | qatal · qal | נֵפֶל *a miscarriage* | שָֽׁמֶשׁ *\[the\] sun* | | | 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} הֵיךְ זְחִיל תִּיבְלָלָא דִי מָאֵס אוֹרְחֵיהּ הֵיךְ נְפוּלָא וְאָשׁוּתָא דִי סַמְיָן וְלָא חֲמוּן שִׁמְשָׁא: 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 them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.954/) **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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