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title: Psalms 79:1 (JPS 1917) — O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defile… · tree and pragmatics
description: O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps. Who acts: heathen, they, Thine. Psalms 79:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 79:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.

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**Who acts:** heathen, they, Thine · **What happens:** come, defile, make, inherit · **To what, where:** inheritance, holy temple, Jerusalem, heaps

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This is Psalms 79:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (heathen, they, Thine), 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:1401
# text = O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	defiled	defile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
15	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | present · passive | the heathen |  |  | Thine inheritance |  | God *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into inheritance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **defile** | present · perfect | they | Thy holy temple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | they | Jerusalem |  | heaps |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Material into heap=Product |
| 4 | **inherit** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | 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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מִזְמ֗וֹר לְאָ֫סָ֥ףאֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֡ים בָּ֤אוּ גוֹיִ֨ם ׀ בְּֽנַחֲלָתֶ֗ךָ טִ֭מְּאוּ אֶת־הֵיכַ֣ל קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ שָׂ֖מוּ אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֣ם לְעִיִּֽים׃

[Psalms 79:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of Asaph.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1400/)
2. **O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.**

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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:1401` 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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