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title: Psalms 78:16 (JPS 1917) — He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run do… · tree and pragmatics
description: He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. Who acts: God, waters. Psalms 78:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:16 · JPS 1917

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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

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**Who acts:** God, waters · **What happens:** bring, cause, run down · **To what, where:** streams, rock, waters

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This is Psalms 78:16 · 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 (God, waters), 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:1343
# text = He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | God | streams |  | the rock |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stream=Theme out rock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | God *not said here* | waters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run down** | to-infinitive | waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like rivers; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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וַיּוֹצִ֣א נוֹזְלִ֣ים מִסָּ֑לַע וַיּ֖וֹרֶד כַּנְּהָר֣וֹת מָֽיִם׃

[Psalms 78:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.16/)

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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:1343` 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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