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title: Psalms 104:9 (JPS 1917) — Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth. Who acts: Thou, valleys. Psalms 104:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 104:9 · JPS 1917

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Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth.

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**Who acts:** Thou, valleys · **What happens:** set, not pass over, not return, cover · **To what, where:** bound, earth

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This is Psalms 104:9 · 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, valleys), 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:1832
# text = Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **set** | past · do-support | Thou | a bound |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bound=Result |
| 2 | **not** **pass over** | should | valleys *= valley* | a bound |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **return** | might | valleys *= valley* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive | valleys *= valley* *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination |

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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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גְּֽבוּל־שַׂ֭מְתָּ בַּל־יַֽעֲבֹר֑וּן בַּל־יְ֝שׁוּב֗וּן לְכַסּ֥וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 104:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.9/)

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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:1832` 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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