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title: Psalms 108:9 (JPS 1917) — Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre. Who acts: Gilead, Manasseh, Ephraim, Judah. Psalms 108:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 108:9 · JPS 1917

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Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.

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**Who acts:** Gilead, Manasseh, Ephraim, Judah · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mine, defence, sceptre

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This is Psalms 108:9 · 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 (Gilead, Manasseh, Ephraim, Judah), 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:2006
# text = Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
1	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Manasseh	Manasseh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Gilead | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Manasseh | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Ephraim | the defence |  |  |  | of my head | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Judah | my sceptre |  |  |  |  | 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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לִ֤י גִלְעָ֨ד ׀ לִ֤י מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה וְ֭אֶפְרַיִם מָע֣וֹז רֹאשִׁ֑י יְ֝הוּדָ֗ה מְחֹקְקִֽי׃

[Psalms 108:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.9/)

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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:2006` 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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