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title: Psalms 127:5 (JPS 1917) — Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be put to shame, when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Who acts: man, children. Psalms 127:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 127:5 · JPS 1917

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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be put to shame, when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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**Who acts:** man, children · **What happens:** be, have, not put, speak, quiver · **To what, where:** quiver, children, gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 127:5 · 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 (man, children), 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:2401
# text = Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be put to shame, when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 man |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the man | man's quiver |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiver=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **put** | shall · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | children *= child* |  |  | the gate |  | with children's enemies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **quiver** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: 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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אַשְׁרֵ֤י הַגֶּ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁ֤ר מִלֵּ֥א אֶת־אַשְׁפָּת֗וֹ מֵ֫הֶ֥ם לֹֽא־יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ כִּֽי־יְדַבְּר֖וּ אֶת־אוֹיְבִ֣ים בַּשָּֽׁעַר׃

[Psalms 127:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.5/)

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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:2401` 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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