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title: Psalms 67:2 (JPS 1917) — God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may He cause His face to shin… · tree and pragmatics
description: God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may He cause His face to shine toward us; Selah Who acts: God, face. Psalms 67:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 67:2 · JPS 1917

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God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may He cause His face to shine toward us; Selah

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**Who acts:** God, face · **What happens:** be, bless, cause, shine · **To what, where:** us, face

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This is Psalms 67:2 · 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 (God, face), 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:1082
# text = God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may He cause His face to shine toward us; Selah
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Selah	Selah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | God |  |  |  |  | unto us; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive | God *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | may | God | God's face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | to-infinitive | God's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward us | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אֱלֹהִ֗ים יְחָנֵּ֥נוּ וִֽיבָרְכֵ֑נוּ יָ֤אֵ֥ר פָּנָ֖יו אִתָּ֣נוּ סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 67:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.67.2/)

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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:1082` 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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