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title: Psalms 66:3 (JPS 1917) — Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away before Thee. Who acts: enemies. Psalms 66:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 66:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away before Thee.

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**Who acts:** enemies · **What happens:** dwindle away · **To what, where:** greatness

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This is Psalms 66:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:1062
# text = Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away before Thee.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dwindle	dwindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle away** | shall | Thine enemies |  |  | the greatness of Thy power | before Thee | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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אִמְר֣וּ לֵ֭אלֹהִים מַה־נּוֹרָ֣א מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ בְּרֹ֥ב עֻ֝זְּךָ֗ יְֽכַחֲשׁ֖וּ לְךָ֣ אֹיְבֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 66:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Say unto God: 'How tremendous is Thy work!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1061/)
2. **Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies dwindle away before Thee.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1062` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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