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title: Psalms 121:1 (JPS 1917) — I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my he… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come? Who acts: I, help, my. Psalms 121:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 121:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?

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**Who acts:** I, help, my · **What happens:** lift up, come, help · **To what, where:** eyes

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This is Psalms 121:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (I, help, my), 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:2351
# text = I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | future | I | mine eyes |  |  |  | unto the mountains | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | shall | my help |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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שִׁ֗יר לַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹתאֶשָּׂ֣א עֵ֭ינַי אֶל־הֶהָרִ֑ים מֵ֝אַ֗יִן יָבֹ֥א עֶזְרִֽי׃

[Psalms 121:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Song of Ascents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2350/)
2. **I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?**

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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:2351` 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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