--- title: Psalms 144:12 — We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace; Who acts: sons, daughters. Psalms 144:12 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.144.12/) [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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/144/) / 144:12 # Psalms 144:12 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** sons, daughters · **What happens:** be, grow up, carve · **To what, where:** plants, youth, corner pillars This is Psalms 144:12 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 — sons, daughters — and what happens in the verse to plants, youth, corner pillars, 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. אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃ [We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2610/) ## 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:2443 # text = אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃ # verse = PSA.144.12 1 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 6 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=PSA_144:12!1|MId=o191440120011|Strong=0834|Type=relative 2-3 בָּנֵ֨ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 בָּנֵ֨י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Gloss=sons|Ref=PSA_144:12!2|MId=o191440120021|Strong=1121 3 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=PSA_144:12!2|MId=o191440120022|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_144:12!2 5-6 כִּנְטִעִים֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 כִּ כְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=[will|Ref=PSA_144:12!3|MId=o191440120031|Strong=3509a 6 נְטִעִים֮ נָטִיעַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=be].like.plants|Ref=PSA_144:12!3|MId=o191440120032|Strong=5195 7 מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים גָּדַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=full.grown|Ref=PSA_144:12!4|MId=o191440120041|Strong=1431|Frame=A1:191440120032;|Type=participle_passive 8-10 בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בִּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_144:12!5|MId=o191440120051|Strong=0871a 9 נְעוּרֵ֫י נְעוּרִים NOUN _ Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=youth(s)|Ref=PSA_144:12!5|MId=o191440120052|Strong=5271 10 הֶ֥ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_144:12!5|MId=o191440120053|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 11-12 בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּנוֹתֵ֥י בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ Gloss=daughters|Ref=PSA_144:12!6|MId=o191440120061|Strong=1323 12 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=PSA_144:12!6|MId=o191440120062|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 13-14 כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 כְ כְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=[will|Ref=PSA_144:12!7|MId=o191440120071|Strong=3509a 14 זָוִיֹּ֑ת זָוִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Gloss=be].like.corners|Ref=PSA_144:12!7|MId=o191440120072|Strong=2106 15 מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת חָטַב VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur 14 acl:relcl _ Gloss=carved|Ref=PSA_144:12!8|MId=o191440120081|Strong=2404|Frame=A1:191440120072;|Type=participle_passive 16 תַּבְנִ֥ית תַּבְנִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 15 obl _ Gloss=[the].structure|Ref=PSA_144:12!9|MId=o191440120091|Strong=8403 17 הֵיכָֽל הֵיכָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.palace|Ref=PSA_144:12!10|MId=o191440120101|Strong=1964|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=PSA_144:12!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מְגֻדָּלִים *full grown* | participle passive · pual | | נְטִעִים *be\] like plants* | | | | מְחֻטָּבוֹת *carved* | participle passive · pual | | זָוִיֹּת *be\] like corners* | | | 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} דִבְנָנָא כִּנְצִיבִין דְדִקְלִין בְּאוּלְפָן אוֹרַיְתָא רַבְיָן מִן טַלְיוּתְהוֹן בְּנָתָנָא זִוְתָנִין וּכְשֵׁרִין לְכַהֲנַיָא דִמְשַׁמְשִׁין בִּמְצַע הֵיכְלָא: 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. [We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2610/) **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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