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title: Psalms 102:27 (JPS 1917) — They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away; Who acts: hands, Thou, all. Psalms 102:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 102:27 · JPS 1917

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They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away;

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**Who acts:** hands, Thou, all · **What happens:** perish, endure, wax, change, pass away · **To what, where:** hands

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This is Psalms 102:27 · 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 (hands, Thou, all), 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:1797
# text = They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away;
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	wax	wax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vesture	vesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | shall | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **endure** | shall | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wax** | shall | all |  |  |  |  | like a garment; old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | shall | Thou | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | as a vesture | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **pass away** | shall | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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הֵ֤מָּה ׀ יֹאבֵדוּ֮ וְאַתָּ֪ה תַ֫עֲמֹ֥ד וְ֭כֻלָּם כַּבֶּ֣גֶד יִבְל֑וּ כַּלְּב֖וּשׁ תַּחֲלִיפֵ֣ם וְֽיַחֲלֹֽפוּ׃

[Psalms 102:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.27/)

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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:1797` 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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