--- title: Psalms 106:23 (JPS 1917) — Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chos… · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them. Who acts: Ham, Moses. 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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 (Ham, Moses), 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:1929 # text = Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 12 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 chosen chosen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 breach breach NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 24 back back ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ham | | | | | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **destroy** | would | Ham | things *= thing* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **not** **stand** | past | Moses | | | the breach | before Ham | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 4 | **turn back** | to-infinitive | Moses *not said here* | Ham's wrath | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | | 5 | **destroy** | should | Ham | things *= thing* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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} וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥ם לוּלֵ֡י מֹ֘שֶׁ֤ה בְחִיר֗וֹ עָמַ֣ד בַּפֶּ֣רֶץ לְפָנָ֑יו לְהָשִׁ֥יב חֲ֝מָת֗וֹ מֵֽהַשְׁחִֽית׃ [Psalms 106:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.23/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1929` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 106:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1928/) - next →: [Psalms 106:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1930/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 106:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.23/)