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title: Psalms 78:71 (JPS 1917) — From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepher… · tree and pragmatics
description: From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. Who acts: ewes, LORD. Psalms 78:71 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 78:71 · JPS 1917

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From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

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**Who acts:** ewes, LORD · **What happens:** follow, give, bring, be, inherit · **To what, where:** ewes, suck, David, shepherd, Jacob

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This is Psalms 78:71 · 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 (ewes, LORD), 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:1398
# text = From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ewes	ewe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	suck	suck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **follow** | gerund |  | the ewes |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ewe=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | the ewes | suck |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suck=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | LORD |  | David |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | shepherd |  | Jacob and Israel |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **inherit** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: 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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מֵאַחַ֥ר עָל֗וֹת הֱ֫בִיא֥וֹ לִ֭רְעוֹת בְּיַעֲקֹ֣ב עַמּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל נַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 78:71: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.71/)

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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:1398` 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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