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title: Psalms 18:13 (JPS 1917) — At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire. Who acts: hailstones, fire. Psalms 18:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 18:13 · JPS 1917

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At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

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**Who acts:** hailstones, fire · **What happens:** pass, cloud · **To what, where:** brightness

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This is Psalms 18:13 · 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 (hailstones, fire), 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:223
# text = At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **pass** | past | hailstones and coals of fire |  |  | the brightness before fire; there |  | through fire's thick clouds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at brightness=Location |
| 2 | **cloud** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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מִנֹּ֗גַהּ נֶ֫גְדּ֥וֹ עָבָ֥יו עָבְר֑וּ בָּ֝רָ֗ד וְגַֽחֲלֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃

[Psalms 18:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.13/)

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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:223` 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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