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title: Psalms 77:4 (JPS 1917) — When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth. Who acts: I, spirit. Psalms 77:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 77:4 · JPS 1917

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When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth.

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**Who acts:** I, spirit · **What happens:** think, moan, muse, faint

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This is Psalms 77:4 · 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 (I, spirit), 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:1307
# text = When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	moan	moan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	muse	muse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fainteth	faint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **moan** | must | I |  |  |  |  | God *vocative* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **muse** | present | I |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **faint** | present | my spirit |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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אֶזְכְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְאֶֽהֱמָיָ֑ה אָשִׂ֓יחָה ׀ וְתִתְעַטֵּ֖ף רוּחִ֣י סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 77:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.4/)

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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:1307` 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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