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title: Psalms 78:1 (JPS 1917) — Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the word… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Who acts: you, my. Psalms 78:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** give, incline, teach, word · **To what, where:** ear, teaching, ears, mouth

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This is Psalms 78:1 · 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 (you, my), 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:1328
# text = Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	incline	incline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | ear | my teaching |  |  | my people *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to teaching=Recipient |
| 2 | **incline** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your ears |  |  |  | to the words of my mouth | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to word=Theme |
| 3 | **teach** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְאָ֫סָ֥ףהַאֲזִ֣ינָה עַ֭מִּי תּוֹרָתִ֑י הַטּ֥וּ אָ֝זְנְכֶ֗ם לְאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

[Psalms 78:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Maschil of Asaph.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1327/)
2. **Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.**

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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:1328` 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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