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title: Psalms 110:4 (JPS 1917) — The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for eve… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for ever after the manner of Melchizedek.' Who acts: LORD, Thou. Psalms 110:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 110:4 · JPS 1917

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The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for ever after the manner of Melchizedek.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, Thou · **What happens:** swear, not repent, be · **To what, where:** priest

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This is Psalms 110:4 · 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 (LORD, Thou), 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:2050
# text = The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for ever after the manner of Melchizedek.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
13	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Melchizedek	Melchizedek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **repent** | future | the LORD *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Thou | a priest |  |  | after the manner of Melchizedek |  | 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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נִשְׁבַּ֤ע יְהוָ֨ה ׀ וְלֹ֥א יִנָּחֵ֗ם אַתָּֽה־כֹהֵ֥ן לְעוֹלָ֑ם עַל־דִּ֝בְרָתִ֗י מַלְכִּי־צֶֽדֶקמַלְכִּי־צֶֽדֶק׃

[Psalms 110:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.110.4/)

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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:2050` 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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