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title: Psalms 72:6 (JPS 1917) — May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that wate… · tree and pragmatics
description: May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. Who acts: sun, showers. Psalms 72:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 72:6 · JPS 1917

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May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

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**Who acts:** sun, showers · **What happens:** come down, water · **To what, where:** mown grass, earth

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This is Psalms 72:6 · 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 (sun, showers), 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:1202
# text = May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mown	mown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	water	water	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | may | sun |  |  | the mown grass |  | like rain; as showers; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Location |
| 2 | **water** | present | showers | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination |

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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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יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 72:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/)

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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:1202` 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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