--- title: Psalms 45:2 — My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concer… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Who acts: heart, I, work, tongue. Psalms 45:2 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.45.2/) [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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/45/) / 45:2 # Psalms 45:2 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** heart, I, work, tongue, My · **What happens:** overflow, say, concern, be, work · **To what, where:** pen · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 45:2 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 — heart, I, work, tongue, My — and what happens in the verse to pen, 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. רָ֘חַ֤שׁ לִבִּ֨י ׀ דָּ֘בָ֤ר ט֗וֹב אֹמֵ֣ר אָ֭נִי מַעֲשַׂ֣י לְמֶ֑לֶךְ לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗י עֵ֤ט ׀ סוֹפֵ֬ר מָהִֽיר׃ [My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.742/) ## 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:682 # text = רָ֘חַ֤שׁ לִבִּ֨י ׀ דָּ֘בָ֤ר ט֗וֹב אֹמֵ֣ר אָ֭נִי מַעֲשַׂ֣י לְמֶ֑לֶךְ לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗י עֵ֤ט ׀ סוֹפֵ֬ר מָהִֽיר׃ # verse = PSA.45.2 1 רָ֘חַ֤שׁ רָחַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.is.aroused|Ref=PSA_45:2!1|MId=o190450020011|Strong=7370|Frame=A0:190450020021;|Type=qatal 2-3 לִבִּ֨י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לִבּ לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=heart|Ref=PSA_45:2!2|MId=o190450020021|Strong=3820 3 ִ֨י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_45:2!2|MId=o190450020022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_45:2!2 5 דָּ֘בָ֤ר דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=a.word|Ref=PSA_45:2!3|MId=o190450020031|Strong=1697 6 ט֗וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 amod _ Gloss=good|Ref=PSA_45:2!4|MId=o190450020041|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 7 אֹמֵ֣ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ Gloss=[am].speaking|Ref=PSA_45:2!5|MId=o190450020051|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:190450020061;A1:190450020071;|Type=participle_active 8 אָ֭נִי אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=PSA_45:2!6|MId=o190450020061|Strong=0589|Type=personal 9-10 מַעֲשַׂ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 מַעֲשׂ מַעֲשֶׂה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 obj _ Gloss=work(s)|Ref=PSA_45:2!7|MId=o190450020071|Strong=4639 10 ַ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_45:2!7|MId=o190450020072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11-12 לְמֶ֑לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=PSA_45:2!8|MId=o190450020081|Strong=3807a 12 מֶ֑לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=king|Ref=PSA_45:2!8|MId=o190450020082|Strong=4428 13-14 לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ֝שׁוֹנ לָשׁוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=tongue|Ref=PSA_45:2!9|MId=o190450020091|Strong=3956 14 ִ֗י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_45:2!9|MId=o190450020092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15 עֵ֤ט עֵט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ Gloss=[is].a.stylus|Ref=PSA_45:2!10|MId=o190450020101|Strong=5842 16 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=PSA_45:2!10 17 סוֹפֵ֬ר סֹפֵר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.scribe|Ref=PSA_45:2!11|MId=o190450020111|Strong=5608a 18 מָהִֽיר מָהִיר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 amod _ Gloss=skilled|Ref=PSA_45:2!12|MId=o190450020121|Strong=4106|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=PSA_45:2!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | רָחַשׁ *it is aroused* | qatal · qal | לִבּ *heart* | | | | | אֹמֵר *\[am\] speaking* | participle active · qal | אָנִי *I* | מַעֲשׂ *work(s)* | | | 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} בָּעֵי לִבִּי מַמְלַל טָב אֵימַר אֲנִי עוֹבָדַי לְמַלְכָּא מַמְלַל לִישָׁנֵי מוֹחִי הֵיךְ קוֹלְמוֹס סַפְרָא רָגִיל: 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. [My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.742/) **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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