--- title: Psalms 90:17 (JPS 1917) — And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish T… · tree and pragmatics description: And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it. Who acts: graciousness, Thou, hands. 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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 (graciousness, Thou, hands), 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:1635 # text = And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 graciousness graciousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 aux _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 ccomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 establish establish VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 25 yea yea INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 establish establish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | the graciousness of the Lord | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **establish** | infinitive | Thou | the work of our hands | | | | upon us | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | | 3 | **establish** | present | Thou | the work of our hands | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | | our hands | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **work** | | our hands | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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} וִיהִ֤י ׀ נֹ֤עַם אֲדֹנָ֥י אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עָ֫לֵ֥ינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יָ֭דֵינוּ כּוֹנְנָ֥ה עָלֵ֑ינוּ וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָ֝דֵ֗ינוּ כּוֹנְנֵֽהוּ׃ [Psalms 90:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1635` 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 90:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1634/) - next →: [Psalms 91:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1636/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 90:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.17/)