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title: Psalms 85:2 (JPS 1917) — LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the… · tree and pragmatics
description: LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 85:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 85:2 · JPS 1917

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LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** captivity

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This is Psalms 85:2 · 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 (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:1499
# text = LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob.
1	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present · perfect | Thou |  |  |  |  | unto Thy land; LORD *vocative*; favourable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present · perfect | Thou | the captivity of Jacob |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent captivity=Theme |

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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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רָצִ֣יתָ יְהוָ֣ה אַרְצֶ֑ךָ שַׁ֝֗בְתָּ שְׁבִ֣ית יַעֲקֹֽב׃

[Psalms 85:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.2/)

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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:1499` 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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