--- title: Psalms 88:11 (JPS 1917) — Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? · tree and pragmatics description: Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? Who acts: shades. Psalms 88:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1551/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/88/) / [88:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.11/) / JPS 2 # Psalms 88:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? **Who acts:** shades · **What happens:** arise, give · **To what, where:** thanks, Thee This is Psalms 88:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: who acts (shades), 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:1551 # text = Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? 1 Or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 shades shade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 arise arise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 iobj _ _ 9 thanks thanks NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | shall | the shades | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | the shades *not said here* | thanks | Thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient thanks=Theme | 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} הֲלַמֵּתִ֥ים תַּעֲשֶׂה־פֶּ֑לֶא אִם־רְ֝פָאִ֗ים יָק֤וּמוּ ׀ יוֹד֬וּךָ סֶּֽלָה׃ [Psalms 88:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1550/) 2. **Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1551` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 88:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1550/) - next →: [Psalms 88:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1552/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 88:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.11/)