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title: Psalms 88:1 (JPS 1917) — A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth. Psalms 88:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 88:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth.

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This is Psalms 88:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:1539
# text = A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Korah	Korah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Mahalath	Mahalath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
18	Leannoth	Leannoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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שִׁ֥יר מִזְמ֗וֹר לִבְנֵ֫י קֹ֥רַח לַמְנַצֵּ֣חַ עַל־מָחֲלַ֣ת לְעַנּ֑וֹת מַ֝שְׂכִּ֗יל לְהֵימָ֥ן הָאֶזְרָחִֽי׃

[Psalms 88:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth.**
2. [Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1540/)

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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:1539` 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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