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title: Psalms 130:1 (JPS 1917) — A Song of Ascents. · tree and pragmatics
description: A Song of Ascents. Who acts: Ascents. Psalms 130:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 130:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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A Song of Ascents.

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**Who acts:** Ascents · **What happens:** sing

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This is Psalms 130:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (Ascents), 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:2418
# text = A Song of Ascents.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ascents	ascent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- 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 | **sing** |  | Ascents |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּעֲל֑וֹתמִמַּעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 130:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **A Song of Ascents.**
2. [Out of the depths have I called Thee, O LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2419/)

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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:2418` 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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