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title: Psalms 122:6 (JPS 1917) — Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee. Who acts: you, thrones. Psalms 122:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 122:6 · JPS 1917

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee.

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**Who acts:** you, thrones · **What happens:** pray, prosper, love, pacify · **To what, where:** thee, Jerusalem

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This is Psalms 122:6 · 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 (you, thrones), 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:2365
# text = Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper that love thee.
1	Pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **pray** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the peace of Jerusalem | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for peace=Theme |
| 2 | **prosper** | may | thrones *= throne* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **love** | present |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pacify** |  |  | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שַׁ֭אֲלוּ שְׁל֣וֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם יִ֝שְׁלָ֗יוּ אֹהֲבָֽיִךְ׃

[Psalms 122:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.122.6/)

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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:2365` 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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