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title: Psalms 79:5 (JPS 1917) — How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire? · tree and pragmatics
description: How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire? Who acts: jealousy. Psalms 79:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 79:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?

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**Who acts:** jealousy · **What happens:** burn

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This is Psalms 79:5 · 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 (jealousy), 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:1406
# text = How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **burn** | future | Thy jealousy |  |  |  |  | like fire; long *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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עַד־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָנֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ־אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 79:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [How long, O LORD, wilt Thou be angry for ever?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1405/)
2. **How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?**

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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:1406` 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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