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title: Psalms 72:17 (JPS 1917) — May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as t… · tree and pragmatics
description: May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as the sun; may men also bless themselves by him; may all nations call him happy. Who acts: name, men, nations, king. Psalms 72:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 72:17 · JPS 1917

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May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as the sun; may men also bless themselves by him; may all nations call him happy.

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**Who acts:** name, men, nations, king · **What happens:** endure, continue, bless, call, name · **To what, where:** name, men, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 72:17 · 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, men, nations, king), 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:1213
# text = May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as the sun; may men also bless themselves by him; may all nations call him happy.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endure** | may | king's name |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | may · passive |  | king's name |  |  |  | long *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bless** | may | men | men *= man* |  |  |  | by king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | may | all nations |  | king |  |  | happy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יְהִ֤י שְׁמ֨וֹ לְֽעוֹלָ֗ם לִפְנֵי־שֶׁמֶשׁ֮ יִנּ֪וֹן שְׁ֫מ֥וֹ וְיִתְבָּ֥רְכוּ ב֑וֹ כָּל־גּוֹיִ֥ם יְאַשְּׁרֽוּהוּ׃

[Psalms 72:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.17/)

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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:1213` 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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