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title: Psalms 68:16 (JPS 1917) — A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan. Who acts: mountain. Psalms 68:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:16 · JPS 1917

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A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

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**Who acts:** mountain · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mountain

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This is Psalms 68:16 · 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 (mountain), 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:1105
# text = A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a mountain of God | the mountain |  |  |  | of Bashan | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a mountain of peaks | the mountain |  |  |  | of Bashan | tree rules |

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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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הַר־אֱ֭לֹהִים הַר־בָּשָׁ֑ן הַ֥ר גַּ֝בְנֻנִּ֗ים הַר־בָּשָֽׁן׃

[Psalms 68:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.16/)

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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:1105` 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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