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title: Psalms 114:5 (JPS 1917) — What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 114:5 · JPS 1917

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What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** ail, sea, flee, turn · **To what, where:** thee, sea, Jordan

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This is Psalms 114:5 · 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 (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:2087
# text = What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	aileth	ail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fleest	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turnest	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **ail** | present |  | thee |  |  |  | Jordan *vocative* | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sea** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | present | thou | sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **turn** | present | thou | Jordan *not said here* |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme jordan=Result |

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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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מַה־לְּךָ֣ הַ֭יָּם כִּ֣י תָנ֑וּס הַ֝יַּרְדֵּ֗ן תִּסֹּ֥ב לְאָחֽוֹר׃

[Psalms 114:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.5/)

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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:2087` 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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