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title: Psalms 83:16 (JPS 1917) — So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm. · tree and pragmatics
description: So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm. Who acts: you, Thy. Psalms 83:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 83:16 · JPS 1917

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So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.

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**Who acts:** you, Thy · **What happens:** pursue, affright, storm · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is Psalms 83:16 · 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, Thy), 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:1479
# text = So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	affright	affright	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **pursue** | imperative | you *not said here* | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  | with Thy tempest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **affright** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  | with Thy storm | tree rules |
| 3 | **storm** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּסַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּבְסוּפָתְךָ֥ תְבַהֲלֵֽם׃

[Psalms 83:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.16/)

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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:1479` 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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