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title: Psalms 66:10 (JPS 1917) — For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is r… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 66:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 66:10 · JPS 1917

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For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** try, refine · **To what, where:** us, silver

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This is Psalms 66:10 · JPS 1917 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 (Thou), 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:1069
# text = For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	refined	refine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	refined	refine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · perfect | Thou | us |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
| 2 | **refine** | present · perfect | Thou | us |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 3 | **refine** | present · passive |  | silver |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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כִּֽי־בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּ אֱלֹהִ֑ים צְ֝רַפְתָּ֗נוּ כִּצְרָף־כָּֽסֶף׃

[Psalms 66:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.10/)

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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:1069` 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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