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title: Psalms 68:8 (JPS 1917) — O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah Who acts: Thou. Psalms 68:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:8 · JPS 1917

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O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** go, march · **To what, where:** wilderness

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This is Psalms 68:8 · 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:1097
# text = O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wentest	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Selah	Selah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=other, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Thou |  |  |  | before Thy people | God *vocative*; forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before people=Location |
| 2 | **march** | past · do-support | Thou |  |  | the wilderness |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wilderness=Trajectory |

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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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אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים בְּ֭צֵאתְךָ לִפְנֵ֣י עַמֶּ֑ךָ בְּצַעְדְּךָ֖ בִֽישִׁימ֣וֹן סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 68:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.8/)

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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:1097` 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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