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title: Psalms 81:14 (JPS 1917) — Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways! Who acts: people, Israel. Psalms 81:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 81:14 · JPS 1917

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Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!

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**Who acts:** people, Israel · **What happens:** hearken, walk · **To what, where:** ways

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This is Psalms 81:14 · 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 (people, Israel), 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:1451
# text = Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | would | My people |  |  |  |  | unto Me | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | would | Israel |  |  | My ways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |

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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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ל֗וּ עַ֭מִּי שֹׁמֵ֣עַֽ לִ֑י יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל בִּדְרָכַ֥י יְהַלֵּֽכוּ׃

[Psalms 81:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.14/)

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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:1451` 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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