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title: Psalms 73:20 (JPS 1917) — As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance. Who acts: one, Thou. Psalms 73:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 73:20 · JPS 1917

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As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.

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**Who acts:** one, Thou · **What happens:** awake, arouse, despise · **To what, where:** Thyself, semblance

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This is Psalms 73:20 · 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 (one, Thou), 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:1240
# text = As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awaketh	awake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	arousest	arouse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	Thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	semblance	semblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arouse** | present | Thou | Thyself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thyself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **despise** | future | Thou | eyes's semblance |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer semblance=Stimulus |

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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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כַּחֲל֥וֹם מֵהָקִ֑יץ אֲ֝דֹנָי בָּעִ֤יר ׀ צַלְמָ֬ם תִּבְזֶֽה׃

[Psalms 73:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.20/)

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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:1240` 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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