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title: Psalms 133:2 (JPS 1917) — It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron's beard, that cometh down upon the collar of his garments; Who acts: Song, precious oil, beard. Psalms 133:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 133:2 · JPS 1917

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It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron's beard, that cometh down upon the collar of his garments;

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**Who acts:** Song, precious oil, beard · **What happens:** be, come down · **To what, where:** beard, collar

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This is Psalms 133:2 · 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 (Song, precious oil, beard), 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:2452
# text = It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron's beard, that cometh down upon the collar of his garments;
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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** | present | Song |  |  |  |  | like the precious oil; upon the head | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | gerund | the precious oil *not said here* |  |  | the beard |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beard=Location |
| 3 | **come down** | present | Aaron's beard |  |  | the collar of Aaron's garments |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon collar=Location |

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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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כַּשֶּׁ֤מֶן הַטּ֨וֹב ׀ עַל־הָרֹ֗אשׁ יֹרֵ֗ד עַֽל־הַזָּקָ֥ן זְקַֽן־אַהֲרֹ֑ן שֶׁ֝יֹּרֵ֗ד עַל־פִּ֥י מִדּוֹתָֽיו׃

[Psalms 133:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.133.2/)

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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:2452` 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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