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title: Psalms 68:17 (JPS 1917) — Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which Go… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Who acts: ye, God. Psalms 68:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 68:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?

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**Who acts:** ye, God · **What happens:** look, desire · **To what, where:** mountain

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This is Psalms 68:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (ye, God), 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:1106
# text = Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	askance	askance	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	vocative	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | at the mountain; ye mountains of peaks *vocative*; askance *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **desire** | present · perfect | God | the mountain |  |  |  | for God's abode | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֪ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃

[Psalms 68:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?**
2. [Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1107/)

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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:1106` 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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