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title: Psalms 14:2 (JPS 1917) — The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see i… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God. Who acts: LORD, man. Psalms 14:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 14:2 · JPS 1917

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The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.

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**Who acts:** LORD, man · **What happens:** look, see, be, seek

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This is Psalms 14:2 · 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 (LORD, man), 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:168
# text = The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	_	17	expl	_	_
17	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | upon the children of men; from heaven; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heaven=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | any man of understanding |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | past · do-support | any man of understanding |  |  |  | after God |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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יְֽהוָ֗ה מִשָּׁמַיִם֮ הִשְׁקִ֪יף עַֽל־בְּנֵי־אָ֫דָ֥ם לִ֭רְאוֹת הֲיֵ֣שׁ מַשְׂכִּ֑יל דֹּ֝רֵשׁ אֶת־אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Psalms 14:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.14.2/)

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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:168` 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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