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title: Psalms 78:50 (JPS 1917) — He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from deat… · tree and pragmatics
description: He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; Who acts: God. Psalms 78:50 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:50 · JPS 1917

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He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** levell, not spare, give over, anger · **To what, where:** path, soul, death, life, pestilence

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This is Psalms 78:50 · 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), 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:1377
# text = He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	levelled	levell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **levell** | past | God | a path |  |  |  | for God's anger | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **spare** | past | God | streams's soul |  | death |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent soul=Asset |
| 3 | **give over** | past | God *not said here* | streams's life | the pestilence |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to pestilence=Recipient |
| 4 | **anger** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יְפַלֵּ֥ס נָתִ֗יב לְאַ֫פּ֥וֹ לֹא־חָשַׂ֣ךְ מִמָּ֣וֶת נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם לַדֶּ֥בֶר הִסְגִּֽיר׃

[Psalms 78:50: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.50/)

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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:1377` 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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