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title: Psalms 107:38 (JPS 1917) — He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suff… · tree and pragmatics
description: He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. Who acts: wisdom. Psalms 107:38 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 107:38 · JPS 1917

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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

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**Who acts:** wisdom · **What happens:** bless, multiply, not suffer, decrease · **To what, where:** vineyards, cattle

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This is Psalms 107:38 · 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 (wisdom), 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:1992
# text = He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blesseth	bless	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	suffereth	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	decrease	decrease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **bless** | present | wisdom | vineyards *= vineyard* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply** | present · passive |  | vineyards *= vineyard* |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **suffer** | present | wisdom *not said here* | vineyards's cattle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decrease** | to-infinitive | wisdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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וַיְבָרֲכֵ֣ם וַיִּרְבּ֣וּ מְאֹ֑ד וּ֝בְהֶמְתָּ֗ם לֹ֣א יַמְעִֽיט׃

[Psalms 107:38: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.38/)

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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:1992` 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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