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title: Psalms 87:4 (JPS 1917) — 'I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know Me… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know Me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there.' Who acts: I. Psalms 87:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 87:4 · JPS 1917

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'I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know Me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there.'

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** make, know, bear, mention · **To what, where:** mention, Me, one, Rahab

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This is Psalms 87:4 · 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 (I), 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:1535
# text = 'I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know Me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	Philistia	Philistia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Tyre	Tyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | I | mention of Rahab and Babylon |  |  |  | among Rahab | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Product |
| 2 | **know** | present |  | Me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | this one |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **mention** |  |  | Rahab and Babylon |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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אַזְכִּ֤יר ׀ רַ֥הַב וּבָבֶ֗ל לְֽיֹ֫דְעָ֥י הִנֵּ֤ה פְלֶ֣שֶׁת וְצ֣וֹר עִם־כּ֑וּשׁ זֶ֝֗ה יֻלַּד־שָֽׁם׃

[Psalms 87:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.87.4/)

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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:1535` 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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