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title: Psalms 11:4 — The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD, His throne is in heaven; H… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD, His throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men. Who acts: LORD, throne, eyes, eyelids. Psalms 11:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 11:4 תְּהִלִּים

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**Who acts:** LORD, throne, eyes, eyelids · **What happens:** be, behold, try · **To what, where:** holy temple, heaven, children

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This is Psalms 11:4 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 — LORD, throne, eyes, eyelids — and what happens in the verse to holy temple, heaven, children, 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.

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יְהוָ֤ה ׀ בְּֽהֵ֘יכַ֤ל קָדְשׁ֗וֹ יְהוָה֮ בַּשָּׁמַ֪יִם כִּ֫סְא֥וֹ עֵינָ֥יו יֶחֱז֑וּ עַפְעַפָּ֥יו יִ֝בְחֲנ֗וּ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃

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[The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD, His throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.141/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:130
# text = יְהוָ֤ה ׀ בְּֽהֵ֘יכַ֤ל קָדְשׁ֗וֹ יְהוָה֮ בַּשָּׁמַ֪יִם כִּ֫סְא֥וֹ עֵינָ֥יו יֶחֱז֑וּ עַפְעַפָּ֥יו יִ֝בְחֲנ֗וּ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃
# verse = PSA.11.4
1	יְהוָ֤ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PSA_11:4!1|MId=o190110040011|Strong=3068
2	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	Ref=PSA_11:4!1
3-4	בְּֽהֵ֘יכַ֤ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	בְּֽ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=[is].in|Ref=PSA_11:4!2|MId=o190110040021|Strong=0871a
4	הֵ֘יכַ֤ל	הֵיכָל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=the.temple|Ref=PSA_11:4!2|MId=o190110040022|Strong=1964
5-6	קָדְשׁ֗וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	קָדְשׁ	קֹדֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=his.holiness|Ref=PSA_11:4!3|MId=o190110040031|Strong=6944
6	֗וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_11:4!3|MId=o190110040032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
7	יְהוָה֮	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	10	dislocated	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PSA_11:4!4|MId=o190110040041|Strong=3068
8-10	בַּשָּׁמַ֪יִם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=[is].in|Ref=PSA_11:4!5|MId=o190110040051|Strong=0871a
9	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_11:4!5|MId=o190110040051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	שָּׁמַ֪יִם	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=heavens|Ref=PSA_11:4!5|MId=o190110040052|Strong=8064
11-12	כִּ֫סְא֥וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	כִּ֫סְא	כִּסֵּא	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=throne|Ref=PSA_11:4!6|MId=o190110040061|Strong=3678
12	֥וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_11:4!6|MId=o190110040062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
13-14	עֵינָ֥יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	עֵינָ֥י	עַיִן	NOUN	_	Number=Dual	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=eyes|Ref=PSA_11:4!7|MId=o190110040071|Strong=5869
14	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_11:4!7|MId=o190110040072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
15	יֶחֱז֑וּ	חָזָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.see|Ref=PSA_11:4!8|MId=o190110040081|Strong=2372|Frame=A0:190110040071;|Type=yiqtol
16-17	עַפְעַפָּ֥יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	עַפְעַפָּ֥י	עַפְעַפִּים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Dual	18	nsubj	_	Gloss=eyelids|Ref=PSA_11:4!9|MId=o190110040091|Strong=6079
17	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_11:4!9|MId=o190110040092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
18	יִ֝בְחֲנ֗וּ	בָּחַן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.test|Ref=PSA_11:4!10|MId=o190110040101|Strong=0974|Frame=A0:190110040091;A1:190110040111;|Type=yiqtol
19	בְּנֵ֣י	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Gloss=[the].children|Ref=PSA_11:4!11|MId=o190110040111|Strong=1121
20	אָדָֽם	אָדָם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.humankind|Ref=PSA_11:4!12|MId=o190110040121|Strong=0120|SpaceAfter=No
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=PSA_11:4!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֶחֱזוּ *they see* | yiqtol · qal | עֵינָי *eyes* |  |  |  |
| יִבְחֲנוּ *they test* | yiqtol · qal | עַפְעַפָּי *eyelids* | בְּנֵי *\[the\] children* |  |  |

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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}

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יְיָ בְּהֵיכְלָא דְקוּדְשֵׁיהּ אֱלָהָא בִשְׁמֵי מְרוֹמָא כּוּרְסֵיהּ עֵינוֹי חָמְיָן תְּמוֹרוֹי מְבַחְנָן בְּנֵי נָשָׁא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD, His throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.141/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:PSA:130`.

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