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title: Psalms 79:7 (JPS 1917) — For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. · tree and pragmatics
description: For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. Who acts: kingdoms. Psalms 79:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 79:7 · JPS 1917

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For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

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**Who acts:** kingdoms · **What happens:** devour, lay · **To what, where:** Jacob, habitation

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This is Psalms 79:7 · 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 (kingdoms), 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:1408
# text = For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	waste	waste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **devour** | present · perfect | kingdoms *= kingdom* | Jacob |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacob=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | participle | kingdoms *= kingdom* *not said here* | Jacob's habitation |  |  |  | waste *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitation=Result |

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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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כִּ֭י אָכַ֣ל אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְֽאֶת־נָוֵ֥הוּ הֵשַֽׁמּוּ׃

[Psalms 79:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.79.7/)

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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:1408` 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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