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title: Psalms 104:6 (JPS 1917) — Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains. Who acts: Thou, waters. Psalms 104:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 104:6 · JPS 1917

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Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Thou, waters · **What happens:** cover, stand · **To what, where:** earth, mountains

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This is Psalms 104:6 · 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 (Thou, waters), 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:1829
# text = Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vesture	vesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **cover** | do-support | Thou | earth |  |  |  | with the deep; as a vesture | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with deep=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the waters |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above mountain=Location |

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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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תְּ֭הוֹם כַּלְּב֣וּשׁ כִּסִּית֑וֹ עַל־הָ֝רִ֗ים יַֽעַמְדוּ־מָֽיִם׃

[Psalms 104:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.6/)

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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:1829` 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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