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title: Psalms 104:2 (JPS 1917) — Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest ou… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 104:2 · JPS 1917

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Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

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**What happens:** cover, stretch out · **To what, where:** Thyself, heavens

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This is Psalms 104:2 · 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: 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:1825
# text = Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	coverest	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stretchest	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **cover** | present |  | Thyself |  |  |  | with light; as a garment | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Destination with light=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch out** | present |  | the heavens |  |  |  | like a curtain | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heaven=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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עֹֽטֶה־א֭וֹר כַּשַּׂלְמָ֑ה נוֹטֶ֥ה שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם כַּיְרִיעָֽה׃

[Psalms 104:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.2/)

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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:1825` 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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