--- title: Psalms 104:14 — Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth, Who acts: grass. Psalms 104:14 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.104.14/) [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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/104/) / 104:14 # Psalms 104:14 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** grass · **What happens:** cause, spring up, bring forth, service · **To what, where:** grass, bread, earth, man This is Psalms 104:14 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 — grass — and what happens in the verse to grass, bread, earth, man, 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. מַצְמִ֤יחַ חָצִ֨יר ׀ לַבְּהֵמָ֗ה וְ֭עֵשֶׂב לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת הָאָדָ֑ם לְה֥וֹצִיא לֶ֝֗חֶם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1837/) ## 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:1708 # text = מַצְמִ֤יחַ חָצִ֨יר ׀ לַבְּהֵמָ֗ה וְ֭עֵשֶׂב לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת הָאָדָ֑ם לְה֥וֹצִיא לֶ֝֗חֶם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = PSA.104.14 1 מַצְמִ֤יחַ צָמַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[he.is].causing.to.grow|Ref=PSA_104:14!1|MId=o191040140011|Strong=6779|Frame=AA:191040010051;A0:191040140021;|Type=participle_active 2 חָצִ֨יר חָצִיר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 obj _ Gloss=grass|Ref=PSA_104:14!2|MId=o191040140021|Strong=2682 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_104:14!2 4-6 לַבְּהֵמָ֗ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=PSA_104:14!3|MId=o191040140031|Strong=3807a 5 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_104:14!3|MId=o191040140031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 בְּהֵמָ֗ה בְּהֵמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=cattle|Ref=PSA_104:14!3|MId=o191040140032|Strong=0929 7-8 וְ֭עֵשֶׂב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ֭ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_104:14!4|MId=o191040140041|Strong=2050b 8 עֵשֶׂב עֵשֶׂב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 conj _ Gloss=vegetation|Ref=PSA_104:14!4|MId=o191040140042|Strong=6212 9-10 לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=PSA_104:14!5|MId=o191040140051|Strong=3807a 10 עֲבֹדַ֣ת עֲבֹדָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 obl _ Gloss=the.labor|Ref=PSA_104:14!5|MId=o191040140052|Strong=5656 11-12 הָאָדָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=PSA_104:14!6|MId=o191040140061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 אָדָ֑ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=humankind|Ref=PSA_104:14!6|MId=o191040140062|Strong=0120 13-14 לְה֥וֹצִיא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_104:14!7|MId=o191040140071|Strong=3807a 14 ה֥וֹצִיא יָצָא VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 8 advcl _ Gloss=bring.forth|Ref=PSA_104:14!7|MId=o191040140072|Strong=3318|Frame=AA:191040140042;A0:191040140081;|Type=infinitive_construct 15 לֶ֝֗חֶם לֶחֶם NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=food|Ref=PSA_104:14!8|MId=o191040140081|Strong=3899 16 מִן־ מִן ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=PSA_104:14!9|MId=o191040140091|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No 17-18 הָאָֽרֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 18 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_104:14!10|MId=o191040140101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 18 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=earth|Ref=PSA_104:14!10|MId=o191040140102|Strong=0776 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=PSA_104:14!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מַצְמִיחַ *\[he is\] causing to grow* | participle active · hiphil | חָצִיר *grass* | | | | | הוֹצִיא *bring forth* | infinitive construct · hiphil | לֶחֶם *food* | | | עֵשֶׂב *vegetation* | 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} דִמְרַכֵּי עִסְבָּא לִבְעִירֵי וְיַרְקֵי לְפוּלְחָנָא דְבַר נָשָׁא לְמִפַּק לַחְמָא מִן אַרְעָא: 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. [Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1837/) **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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