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title: Psalms 125:2 (JPS 1917) — As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round abo… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about His people, from this time forth and for ever. Who acts: mountains, LORD. Psalms 125:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 125:2 · JPS 1917

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As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about His people, from this time forth and for ever.

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**Who acts:** mountains, LORD · **What happens:** be

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This is Psalms 125:2 · 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 (mountains, LORD), 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:2384
# text = As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about His people, from this time forth and for ever.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	_	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | the mountains |  |  |  |  | about Jerusalem; round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  |  | time | about Jerusalem's people; round *property* | tree rules |

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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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יְֽרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הָרִים֮ סָבִ֪יב לָ֥הּ וַ֭יהוָה סָבִ֣יב לְעַמּ֑וֹ מֵ֝עַתָּ֗ה וְעַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 125:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.125.2/)

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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:2384` 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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