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title: Psalms 69:32 (JPS 1917) — And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns a… · tree and pragmatics
description: And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Who acts: name, bullock. Psalms 69:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 69:32 · JPS 1917

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And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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**Who acts:** name, bullock · **What happens:** please, have · **To what, where:** LORD, horns

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This is Psalms 69:32 · 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 (name, bullock), 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:1159
# text = And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | shall | name | the LORD |  |  |  | than a bullock; well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lord=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | a bullock | horns and hoofs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |

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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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וְתִיטַ֣ב לַֽ֭יהוָה מִשּׁ֥וֹר פָּ֗ר מַקְרִ֥ן מַפְרִֽיס׃

[Psalms 69:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.32/)

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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:1159` 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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