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title: Psalms 108:8 (JPS 1917) — God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide S… · tree and pragmatics
description: God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. Who acts: God, I. Psalms 108:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 108:8 · JPS 1917

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God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

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**Who acts:** God, I · **What happens:** speak, exult, divide, mete out · **To what, where:** holiness, Shechem, valley · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 108:8 · 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 (God, I), 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:2005
# text = God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	holiness	holiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	exult	exult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
16	Shechem	Shechem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mete	mete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Succoth	Succoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | God |  |  | God's holiness |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exult** | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **divide** | would | I | Shechem |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shechem=Theme |
| 4 | **mete out** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the valley of Succoth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ דִּבֶּ֥ר בְּקָדְשׁ֗וֹ אֶעְלֹ֥זָה אֲחַלְּקָ֥ה שְׁכֶ֑ם וְעֵ֖מֶק סֻכּ֣וֹת אֲמַדֵּֽד׃

[Psalms 108:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.8/)

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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:2005` 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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