--- title: Psalms 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reaso… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away. Who acts: days, vanity, we. 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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 — days, vanity, we — and what happens in the verse to threescore years, pride, 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. יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃ [The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1627/) ## 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:1509 # text = יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃ # verse = PSA.90.10 1 יְמֵֽי־ יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 dislocated _ Gloss=the.days|Ref=PSA_90:10!1|MId=o190900100011|Strong=3117|SpaceAfter=No 2-3 שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 שְׁנוֹתֵ֨י שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=our.years|Ref=PSA_90:10!2|MId=o190900100021|Strong=8141 3 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=PSA_90:10!2|MId=o190900100022|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 4-5 בָהֶ֥ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 ב בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_90:10!3|MId=o190900100031|Strong=0871a 5 ָהֶ֥ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ Gloss=them|Ref=PSA_90:10!3|MId=o190900100032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 6 שִׁבְעִ֪ים שֶׁבַע NUM _ Number=Plur 7 nummod _ Gloss=[are].seventy|Ref=PSA_90:10!4|MId=o190900100041|Strong=7657|Type=cardinal_number 7 שָׁנָ֡ה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=PSA_90:10!5|MId=o190900100051|Strong=8141 8-9 וְאִ֤ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_90:10!6|MId=o190900100061|Strong=2050b 9 אִ֤ם אִם SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=PSA_90:10!6|MId=o190900100062|Strong=0518 10-11 בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=PSA_90:10!7|MId=o190900100071|Strong=0871a 11 גְבוּרֹ֨ת גְּבוּרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 14 advcl _ Gloss=strength(s)|Ref=PSA_90:10!7|MId=o190900100072|Strong=1369 12 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=PSA_90:10!7 13 שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שְׁמֹנֶה NUM _ Number=Plur 14 nummod _ Gloss=eighty|Ref=PSA_90:10!8|MId=o190900100081|Strong=8084|Type=cardinal_number 14 שָׁנָ֗ה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=PSA_90:10!9|MId=o190900100091|Strong=8141 15-17 וְ֭רָהְבָּם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ֭ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_90:10!10|MId=o190900100101|Strong=2050b 16 רָהְבּ רֹהָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=pride|Ref=PSA_90:10!10|MId=o190900100102|Strong=7296 17 ָם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_90:10!10|MId=o190900100103|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 18 עָמָ֣ל עָמָל NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=[is].toil|Ref=PSA_90:10!11|MId=o190900100111|Strong=5999 19-20 וָאָ֑וֶן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_90:10!12|MId=o190900100121|Strong=2050b 20 אָ֑וֶן אָוֶן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=trouble|Ref=PSA_90:10!12|MId=o190900100122|Strong=0205 21 כִּי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 22 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_90:10!13|MId=o190900100131|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 22 גָ֥ז גּוּז VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 advcl _ Gloss=it.passes.away|Ref=PSA_90:10!14|MId=o190900100141|Strong=1468|Frame=A0:190900100021;|Type=qatal 23 חִ֝֗ישׁ חִישׁ ADV _ _ 22 advmod _ Gloss=quickly|Ref=PSA_90:10!15|MId=o190900100151|Strong=2440 24-26 וַנָּעֻֽפָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 25 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_90:10!16|MId=o190900100161|Strong=2050b 25 נָּעֻֽפ עוּף VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=we|Ref=PSA_90:10!16|MId=o190900100162|Strong=5774|Frame=A0:190900010022;190900030021;|Type=wayyiqtol 26 ָה ה X _ _ 25 nmod _ Gloss=flew.away|Ref=PSA_90:10!16|MId=o190900100163|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=PSA_90:10!16 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | גָז *it passes away* | qatal · qal | שְׁנוֹתֵי *our years* | | | | | נָּעֻֽפ *we* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | 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} יוֹמֵי שְׁנוֹתָנָא בְּעָלְמָא הָדֵין שׁוּבְעִין שְׁנִין מִתְאַלְמִין וְאִין בִּגְבוּרְתָּא תַּמְנָן שְׁנִין וְסוּגְעֵיהוֹן לֵיאוּת וּשְׁקַר לְחַיָבַיָא אֲרוּם עֲדוּ בְּסַרְהוֹבְיָא וְטָיְסִין לְצַפְרָא: 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. [The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1627/) **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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