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title: Psalms 2:9 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.' Who acts: Thou. Psalms 2:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 2:9 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** break, dash · **To what, where:** nations, pieces

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This is Psalms 2:9 · 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 (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:15
# text = Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | shall | Thou | nations *= nation* |  |  |  | with a rod of iron | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rod=Instrument |
| 2 | **dash** | shall | thou | nations *= nation* |  | pieces |  | like a potter's vessel | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in piece=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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תְּ֭רֹעֵם בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט בַּרְזֶ֑ל כִּכְלִ֖י יוֹצֵ֣ר תְּנַפְּצֵֽם׃

[Psalms 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.9/)

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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:15` 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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