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title: Psalms 78:17 (JPS 1917) — Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. Who acts: rocks. Psalms 78:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:17 · JPS 1917

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Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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**Who acts:** rocks · **What happens:** go, sin, rebel · **To what, where:** desert

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This is Psalms 78:17 · 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 (rocks), 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:1344
# text = Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rebel	rebel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | rocks *= rock* |  |  |  | still |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sin** | to-infinitive | rocks *= rock* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against God | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against he=Maleficiary |
| 3 | **rebel** | to-infinitive | rocks *= rock* *not said here* |  |  | the desert |  | against the High | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against high=Maleficiary |

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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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וַיּוֹסִ֣יפוּ ע֭וֹדלַחֲטֹא־ל֑וֹ לַֽמְר֥וֹת עֶ֝לְי֗וֹן בַּצִּיָּֽה׃

[Psalms 78:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.17/)

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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:1344` 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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