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title: Psalms 104:14 (JPS 1917) — Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth, Who acts: grass. Psalms 104:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 104:14 · JPS 1917

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Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth,

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**Who acts:** grass · **What happens:** cause, spring up, bring forth, service · **To what, where:** grass, bread, earth, man

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This is Psalms 104:14 · 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 (grass), 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:1837
# text = Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth,
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=wh, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present |  | the grass and herb for the service of man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring up** | to-infinitive | the grass and herb for the service of man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the cattle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring forth** | to-infinitive |  | bread |  | the earth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **service** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=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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מַצְמִ֤יחַ חָצִ֨יר ׀ לַבְּהֵמָ֗ה וְ֭עֵשֶׂב לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת הָאָדָ֑ם לְה֥וֹצִיא לֶ֝֗חֶם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 104:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.14/)

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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:1837` 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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