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title: Psalms 81:6 (JPS 1917) — The speech of one that I knew not did I hear: · tree and pragmatics
description: The speech of one that I knew not did I hear: Who acts: I. Psalms 81:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 81:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not know, hear, speak · **To what, where:** speech, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 81:6 · 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 (I), 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:1443
# text = The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	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 | **not** **know** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past · do-support | I | the speech of one |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 3 | **speak** |  |  | one |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=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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עֵ֤דוּת ׀ בִּֽיה֘וֹסֵ֤ף שָׂמ֗וֹ בְּ֭צֵאתוֹ עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם שְׂפַ֖ת לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

[Psalms 81:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1442/)
2. **The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:**

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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:1443` 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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