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title: Psalms 77:10 (JPS 1917) — Hath God forgotten to be gracious? · tree and pragmatics
description: Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Who acts: God. Psalms 77:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 77:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Hath God forgotten to be gracious?

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** forget, not be

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This is Psalms 77:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (God), 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:1314
# text = Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
1	Hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present · perfect | God |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gracious *property* | tree rules |

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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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הֲשָׁכַ֣ח חַנּ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל אִם־קָפַ֥ץ בְּ֝אַ֗ף רַחֲמָ֥יו סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 77:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Hath God forgotten to be gracious?**
2. [Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1315/)

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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:1314` 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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