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title: Psalms 94:9 (JPS 1917) — He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? · tree and pragmatics
description: He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? Who acts: God. Psalms 94:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 94:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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He that planted the ear, shall He not hear?

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** plant, not hear · **To what, where:** ear

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This is Psalms 94:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (God), 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:1683
# text = He that planted the ear, shall He not hear?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | past |  | the ear |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | shall | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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הֲנֹ֣טַֽע אֹ֭זֶןהֲלֹ֣א יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִֽם־יֹ֥צֵֽר עַ֝֗יִן הֲלֹ֣א יַבִּֽיט׃

[Psalms 94:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **He that planted the ear, shall He not hear?**
2. [He that formed the eye, shall He not see?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1684/)

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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:1683` 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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