--- title: Psalms 72:16 — May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mounta… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mountains; may his fruit rustle like Lebanon; and may they blossom out of the city like grass of the earth. Who acts: king, fruit, souls. 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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 — king, fruit, souls — and what happens in the verse to land, city, 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. יְהִ֤י פִסַּת־בַּ֨ר ׀ בָּאָרֶץ֮ בְּרֹ֪אשׁ הָ֫רִ֥ים יִרְעַ֣שׁ כַּלְּבָנ֣וֹן פִּרְי֑וֹ וְיָצִ֥יצוּ מֵ֝עִ֗יר כְּעֵ֣שֶׂב הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mountains; may his fruit rustle like Lebanon; and may they blossom out of the city like grass of the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1212/) ## 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:1127 # text = יְהִ֤י פִסַּת־בַּ֨ר ׀ בָּאָרֶץ֮ בְּרֹ֪אשׁ הָ֫רִ֥ים יִרְעַ֣שׁ כַּלְּבָנ֣וֹן פִּרְי֑וֹ וְיָצִ֥יצוּ מֵ֝עִ֗יר כְּעֵ֣שֶׂב הָאָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = PSA.72.16 1 יְהִ֤י הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 cop _ Gloss=may.it.be|Ref=PSA_72:16!1|MId=o190720160011|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:190720160021;|Type=jussive 2 פִסַּת־ פִּסָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=an.abundance|Ref=PSA_72:16!2|MId=o190720160021|Strong=6451|SpaceAfter=No 3 בַּ֨ר בַּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.grain|Ref=PSA_72:16!3|MId=o190720160031|Strong=1250 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_72:16!3 5-7 בָּאָרֶץ֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בָּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_72:16!4|MId=o190720160041|Strong=0871a 6 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_72:16!4|MId=o190720160041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 אָרֶץ֮ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=land|Ref=PSA_72:16!4|MId=o190720160042|Strong=0776 8-9 בְּרֹ֪אשׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=on.[the]|Ref=PSA_72:16!5|MId=o190720160051|Strong=0871a 9 רֹ֪אשׁ רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=top|Ref=PSA_72:16!5|MId=o190720160052|Strong=7218 10 הָ֫רִ֥ים הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].mountains|Ref=PSA_72:16!6|MId=o190720160061|Strong=2022 11 יִרְעַ֣שׁ רָעַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 parataxis _ Gloss=may.it.wave|Ref=PSA_72:16!7|MId=o190720160071|Strong=7493|Frame=A0:190720160091;|Type=yiqtol 12-14 כַּלְּבָנ֣וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=PSA_72:16!8|MId=o190720160081|Strong=3509a 13 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=PSA_72:16!8|MId=o190720160081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 לְּבָנ֣וֹן לְבָנוֹן PROPN _ _ 11 obl _ Gloss=Lebanon|Ref=PSA_72:16!8|MId=o190720160082|Strong=3844 15-16 פִּרְי֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 פִּרְי פְּרִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=fruit|Ref=PSA_72:16!9|MId=o190720160091|Strong=6529 16 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=PSA_72:16!9|MId=o190720160092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 17-18 וְיָצִ֥יצוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_72:16!10|MId=o190720160101|Strong=2050b 18 יָצִ֥יצוּ צוּץ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3 7 conj _ Gloss=may.people.flourish|Ref=PSA_72:16!10|MId=o190720160102|Strong=6692|Frame=A0:190720040031;|Type=yiqtol 19-20 מֵ֝עִ֗יר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 מֵ֝ מִן ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=PSA_72:16!11|MId=o190720160111|Strong=4480 20 עִ֗יר עִיר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=city|Ref=PSA_72:16!11|MId=o190720160112|Strong=5892 21-22 כְּעֵ֣שֶׂב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=PSA_72:16!12|MId=o190720160121|Strong=3509a 22 עֵ֣שֶׂב עֵשֶׂב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=the.vegetation|Ref=PSA_72:16!12|MId=o190720160122|Strong=6212 23-24 הָאָֽרֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=PSA_72:16!13|MId=o190720160131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.earth|Ref=PSA_72:16!13|MId=o190720160132|Strong=0776 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=PSA_72:16!13 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי *may it be* | jussive · qal | פִסַּת־ *an abundance* | | | | | יִרְעַשׁ *may it wave* | yiqtol · qal | פִּרְי *fruit* | | | | | יָצִיצוּ *may people flourish* | yiqtol · hiphil | | | | | 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} יְהִי סָעִיד לַחְמָא בְּאַרְעָא בְּרֵישׁ טוּרַיָא יַרְגִישׁ הֵיךְ כְּלִבְנָן אִבֵּיהּ וִינַצְצוּן מִן קַרְתָּא דִירוּשְׁלֶם הֵיךְ עִסְבָּא דְאַרְעָא: 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. [May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mountains; may his fruit rustle like Lebanon; and may they blossom out of the city like grass of the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1212/) **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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