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title: Psalms 72:15 — That they may live, and that he may give them of the gold of Sheba,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: That they may live, and that he may give them of the gold of Sheba, that they may pray for him continually, yea, bless him all the day. Who acts: souls, king. Psalms 72:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 72:15 תְּהִלִּים

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**Who acts:** souls, king · **What happens:** live, give, pray, bless · **To what, where:** souls, king

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This is Psalms 72:15 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 — souls, king — and what happens in the verse to souls, king, 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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וִיחִ֗י וְיִתֶּן־לוֹ֮ מִזְּהַ֪ב שְׁ֫בָ֥א וְיִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל בַּעֲד֣וֹ תָמִ֑יד כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם יְבָרֲכֶֽנְהֽוּ׃

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[That they may live, and that he may give them of the gold of Sheba, that they may pray for him continually, yea, bless him all the day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1211/)

## 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:1126
# text = וִיחִ֗י וְיִתֶּן־לוֹ֮ מִזְּהַ֪ב שְׁ֫בָ֥א וְיִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל בַּעֲד֣וֹ תָמִ֑יד כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם יְבָרֲכֶֽנְהֽוּ׃
# verse = PSA.72.15
1-2	וִיחִ֗י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וִ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_72:15!1|MId=o190720150011|Strong=2050b
2	יחִ֗י	חָיָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=may.he.live|Ref=PSA_72:15!1|MId=o190720150012|Strong=2421|Frame=A0:190720010042;190720010072;|Type=jussive
3-4	וְיִתֶּן־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_72:15!2|MId=o190720150021|Strong=2050b
4	יִתֶּן־	נָתַן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=may.someone.give|Ref=PSA_72:15!2|MId=o190720150022|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:;|Type=jussive
5-6	לוֹ֮	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_72:15!3|MId=o190720150031|Strong=3807a
6	וֹ֮	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	Gloss=him|Ref=PSA_72:15!3|MId=o190720150032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
7-8	מִזְּהַ֪ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=some|Ref=PSA_72:15!4|MId=o190720150041|Strong=4480
8	זְּהַ֪ב	זָהָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Gloss=of.the.gold|Ref=PSA_72:15!4|MId=o190720150042|Strong=2091
9	שְׁ֫בָ֥א	שְׁבָא	PROPN	_	_	8	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Sheba|Ref=PSA_72:15!5|MId=o190720150051|Strong=7614
10-11	וְיִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_72:15!6|MId=o190720150061|Strong=2050b
11	יִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל	פָּלַל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=may.someone.pray|Ref=PSA_72:15!6|MId=o190720150062|Strong=6419|Type=jussive
12-13	בַּעֲד֣וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בַּעֲד	בַּעַד	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=PSA_72:15!7|MId=o190720150071|Strong=1157
13	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	Gloss=him|Ref=PSA_72:15!7|MId=o190720150072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
14	תָמִ֑יד	תָּמִיד	ADV	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	advmod	_	Gloss=continually|Ref=PSA_72:15!8|MId=o190720150081|Strong=8548
15	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Gloss=all|Ref=PSA_72:15!9|MId=o190720150091|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
16-17	הַ֝יּ֗וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	הַ֝	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	17	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_72:15!10|MId=o190720150101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
17	יּ֗וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=day|Ref=PSA_72:15!10|MId=o190720150102|Strong=3117
18-19	יְבָרֲכֶֽנְהֽוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	יְבָרֲכ	בָּרַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=may|Ref=PSA_72:15!11|MId=o190720150111|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:;A1:190720150112;|Type=jussive
19	ֶֽנְהֽוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	Gloss=someone.bless.him|Ref=PSA_72:15!11|MId=o190720150112|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=PSA_72:15!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יחִי *may he live* | jussive · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יִתֶּן־ *may someone give* | jussive · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יְבָרֲכ *may* | jussive · piel |  | ֶֽנְהֽוּ *someone bless him* |  |  |

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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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וִיחֵי וְיִתֵּן לֵיהּ מִזְהַב דְאַיְתִיאוּ לֵיהּ מִשְׁבָא וִיצַלֵי מְטוּלְתֵּיהּ תְּדִירָא כָּל יוֹמָא יְבָרְכִנֵיהּ:

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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. [That they may live, and that he may give them of the gold of Sheba, that they may pray for him continually, yea, bless him all the day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1211/)

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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:1126`.

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