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title: Psalms 104:8 (JPS 1917) — The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them; Who acts: mountains, valleys, Thou. Psalms 104:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 104:8 · JPS 1917

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The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;

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**Who acts:** mountains, valleys, Thou · **What happens:** rise, sink down, found · **To what, where:** place

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This is Psalms 104:8 · 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 (mountains, valleys, Thou), 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:1831
# text = The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the mountains |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink down** | past | the valleys |  |  |  |  | unto the place; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **found** | past · perfect | Thou | the place |  |  |  | for mountains *= mountain* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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יַעֲל֣וּ הָ֭רִים יֵרְד֣וּ בְקָע֑וֹת אֶל־מְ֝ק֗וֹם זֶ֤ה ׀ יָסַ֬דְתָּ לָהֶֽם׃

[Psalms 104:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.8/)

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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:1831` 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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