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title: Psalms 80:13 (JPS 1917) — Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her? Who acts: Thou, fences. Psalms 80:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 80:13 · JPS 1917

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Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

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**Who acts:** Thou, fences · **What happens:** break down, pass, pluck · **To what, where:** fences, Egypt

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This is Psalms 80:13 · 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 (Thou, fences), 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:1428
# text = Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | present · perfect | Thou | Egypt's fences |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by the way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location |
| 3 | **pluck** | present · do-support | fences *= fence* | Egypt |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כָּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃

[Psalms 80:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.13/)

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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:1428` 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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