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title: Psalms 87:5 (JPS 1917) — But of Zion it shall be said: 'This man and that was born in her; an… · tree and pragmatics
description: But of Zion it shall be said: 'This man and that was born in her; and the Most High Himself doth establish her.' Who acts: High. Psalms 87:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 87:5 · JPS 1917

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But of Zion it shall be said: 'This man and that was born in her; and the Most High Himself doth establish her.'

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**Who acts:** High · **What happens:** say, bear, establish · **To what, where:** mention, man, Zion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 87:5 · 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 (High), 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:1536
# text = But of Zion it shall be said: 'This man and that was born in her; and the Most High Himself doth establish her.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
10	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	conj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	High	High	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
23	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall · passive |  | mention |  |  |  | of Zion | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | this man |  |  |  | in Zion | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | present · do-support | the High  man | Zion |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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וּֽלֲצִיּ֨וֹן ׀ יֵאָמַ֗ר אִ֣ישׁ וְ֭אִישׁ יֻלַּד־בָּ֑הּ וְה֖וּא יְכוֹנְנֶ֣הָ עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

[Psalms 87:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.87.5/)

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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:1536` 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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