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title: Psalms 89:7 (JPS 1917) — For who in the skies can be compared unto the LORD, who among the so… · tree and pragmatics
description: For who in the skies can be compared unto the LORD, who among the sons of might can be likened unto the LORD, Psalms 89:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 89:7 · JPS 1917

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For who in the skies can be compared unto the LORD, who among the sons of might can be likened unto the LORD,

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**What happens:** compare, liken

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This is Psalms 89:7 · 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: 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:1567
# text = For who in the skies can be compared unto the LORD, who among the sons of might can be likened unto the LORD,
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	likened	liken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **liken** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among the sons of might; unto the LORD | tree rules |

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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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כִּ֤י מִ֣י בַ֭שַּׁחַק יַעֲרֹ֣ךְ לַיהוָ֑ה יִדְמֶ֥ה לַ֝יהוָ֗ה בִּבְנֵ֥י אֵלִים׃

[Psalms 89:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.7/)

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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:1567` 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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