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title: Psalms 127:4 (JPS 1917) — As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of one's… · tree and pragmatics
description: As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of one's youth. Psalms 127:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 127:4 · JPS 1917

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As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of one's youth.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** children

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This is Psalms 127:4 · 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: 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:2400
# text = As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of one's youth.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	one	one	PRON	PRP	Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 a** | present |  | the children |  |  |  | of one's youth | 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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כְּחִצִּ֥ים בְּיַד־גִּבּ֑וֹר כֵּ֝֗ן בְּנֵ֣י הַנְּעוּרִֽים׃

[Psalms 127:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.4/)

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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:2400` 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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