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title: Psalms 127:2 (JPS 1917) — It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep. Who acts: ye, watchman. Psalms 127:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 127:2 · JPS 1917

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It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep.

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**Who acts:** ye, watchman · **What happens:** be, rise, sit up, eat, give · **To what, where:** bread, sleep

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This is Psalms 127:2 · 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 (ye, watchman), 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:2398
# text = It is vain for you that ye rise early, and sit up late, ye that eat the bread of toil; so He giveth unto His beloved in sleep.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	csubj	_	_
9	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for you; vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present | ye |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit up** | present | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present |  | the bread of toil |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | present | watchman |  |  | sleep |  | unto watchman's beloved | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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שָׁ֤וְא לָכֶ֨ם ׀ מַשְׁכִּ֪ימֵי ק֡וּם מְאַֽחֲרֵי־שֶׁ֗בֶת אֹ֭כְלֵי לֶ֣חֶם הָעֲצָבִ֑ים כֵּ֤ן יִתֵּ֖ן לִֽידִיד֣וֹ שֵׁנָֽא׃

[Psalms 127:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.2/)

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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:2398` 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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