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title: Psalms 114:6 (JPS 1917) — Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep? · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep? Who acts: ye. Psalms 114:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 114:6 · JPS 1917

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Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** skip

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This is Psalms 114:6 · 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 (ye), 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:2088
# text = Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	det	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rams	ram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	det	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no 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 | **skip** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | like rams; like young sheep; ye mountains *vocative*; ye hills *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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הֶֽ֭הָרִים תִּרְקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃

[Psalms 114:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.6/)

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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:2088` 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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