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title: Psalms 90:3 (JPS 1917) — Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' Who acts: Thou, ye. Psalms 90:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 90:3 · JPS 1917

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Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'

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**Who acts:** Thou, ye · **What happens:** turn, say, return · **To what, where:** man, contrition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 90:3 · 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 (Thou, ye), 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:1620
# text = Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turnest	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	contrition	contrition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sayest	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	vocative	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Thou | man |  | contrition |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme to contrition=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | children of men *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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תָּשֵׁ֣ב אֱ֭נוֹשׁ עַד־דַּכָּ֑א וַ֝תֹּ֗אמֶר שׁ֣וּבוּ בְנֵי־אָדָֽם׃

[Psalms 90:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.3/)

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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:1620` 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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