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title: Psalms 68:15 (JPS 1917) — When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon. · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon. Who acts: Almighty, it. Psalms 68:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:15 · JPS 1917

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When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon.

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**Who acts:** Almighty, it · **What happens:** scatter, snow · **To what, where:** kings, Zalmon

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This is Psalms 68:15 · 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 (Almighty, it), 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:1104
# text = When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scattereth	scatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	snoweth	snow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Zalmon	Zalmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present | the Almighty |  | kings |  |  | therein *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Destination |
| 2 | **snow** | present | it |  |  | Zalmon |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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בְּפָ֘רֵ֤שׂ שַׁדַּ֓י מְלָ֘כִ֤ים בָּ֗הּ תַּשְׁלֵ֥ג בְּצַלְמֽוֹן׃

[Psalms 68:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.15/)

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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:1104` 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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