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title: Psalms 77:10 (JPS 1917) — Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah · tree and pragmatics
description: Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah 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 2 of 2

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Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** shut up · **To what, where:** compassions, anger

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This is Psalms 77:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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:1315
# text = Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah
1	Hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	compassions	compassion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	Selah	selah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | present · perfect | God | God's compassions |  | anger |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient |

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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1314/)
2. **Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah**

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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:1315` 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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