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title: Psalms 74:15 (JPS 1917) — Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 74:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 74:15 · JPS 1917

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Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** cleave, dry up, flow · **To what, where:** fountain, flowing rivers

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This is Psalms 74:15 · 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 (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:1268
# text = Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	driedst	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cleave** | past · do-support | Thou | fountain and brook |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Patient |
| 2 | **dry up** | past | Thou | flowing rivers |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָנָ֑חַל אַתָּ֥ה ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּ נַהֲר֥וֹת אֵיתָֽן׃

[Psalms 74:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.15/)

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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:1268` 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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