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title: Psalms 87:6 (JPS 1917) — The LORD shall count in the register of the peoples: 'This one was b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD shall count in the register of the peoples: 'This one was born there.' Selah Who acts: LORD, peoples. Psalms 87:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 87:6 · JPS 1917

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The LORD shall count in the register of the peoples: 'This one was born there.' Selah

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**Who acts:** LORD, peoples · **What happens:** count, bear, register · **To what, where:** register, one

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This is Psalms 87:6 · 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 (LORD, peoples), 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:1537
# text = The LORD shall count in the register of the peoples: 'This one was born there.' Selah
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	Selah	Selah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | shall | the LORD |  |  | the register of the peoples |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | this one |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **register** |  | the peoples |  |  |  |  |  | nom register «communication intransitive»: of=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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יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְפֹּר בִּכְת֣וֹב עַמִּ֑ים זֶ֖ה יֻלַּד־שָׁ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 87:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.87.6/)

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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:1537` 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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