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title: Psalms 78:21 (JPS 1917) — Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled agai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel; Who acts: LORD, anger. Psalms 78:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:21 · JPS 1917

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Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;

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**Who acts:** LORD, anger · **What happens:** hear, be, kindle, go up · **To what, where:** fire

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This is Psalms 78:21 · 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 (LORD, anger), 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:1348
# text = Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	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 | **hear** | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kindle** | past · passive |  | a fire |  |  |  | against Jacob | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **go up** | past | anger |  |  |  |  | against Israel | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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לָכֵ֤ן ׀ שָׁמַ֥ע יְהוָ֗ה וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֥ר וְ֭אֵשׁ נִשְּׂקָ֣ה בְיַעֲקֹ֑ב וְגַם־אַ֝֗ף עָלָ֥ה בְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Psalms 78:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.21/)

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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:1348` 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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