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title: Psalms 83:17 (JPS 1917) — Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD. · tree and pragmatics
description: Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD. Who acts: you, mountains, Thy. Psalms 83:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 83:17 · JPS 1917

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Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

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**Who acts:** you, mountains, Thy · **What happens:** fill, seek, name · **To what, where:** faces, name

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This is Psalms 83:17 · 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, mountains, 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:1480
# text = Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.
1	Fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **fill** | imperative | you *not said here* | mountains's faces |  |  |  | with shame | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with shame=Instrument |
| 2 | **seek** | may | mountains *= mountain* | Thy name |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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מַלֵּ֣א פְנֵיהֶ֣ם קָל֑וֹן וִֽיבַקְשׁ֖וּ שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 83:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.17/)

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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:1480` 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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