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title: Psalms 81:9 (JPS 1917) — Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou would… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me! Who acts: you, I, thou. Psalms 81:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 81:9 · JPS 1917

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Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!

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**Who acts:** you, I, thou · **What happens:** hear, admonish, hearken · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Psalms 81:9 · 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 (you, I, thou), 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:1446
# text = Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
4	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	admonish	admonish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My people *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **admonish** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | Israel *vocative* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **hearken** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | thou |  |  |  |  | unto Me | tree rules |

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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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שְׁמַ֣ע עַ֭מִּי וְאָעִ֣ידָה בָּ֑ךְ יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל אִם־תִּֽשְׁמַֽע־לִֽי׃

[Psalms 81:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.9/)

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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:1446` 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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