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title: Psalms 128:3 (JPS 1917) — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table. Who acts: wife. Psalms 128:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 128:3 · JPS 1917

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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** innermost parts

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This is Psalms 128:3 · 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 (wife), 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:2405
# text = Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	innermost	innermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | Thy wife |  |  | the innermost parts of thy house |  | as a fruitful vine and thy children like olive plants about thy table | 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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אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּגֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮ בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֪י בֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָ בָּ֭נֶיךָ כִּשְׁתִלֵ֣י זֵיתִ֑ים סָ֝בִ֗יב לְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃

[Psalms 128:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.3/)

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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:2405` 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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