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title: Psalms 18:35 (JPS 1917) — Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass. Who acts: arms. Psalms 18:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 18:35 · JPS 1917

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Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.

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**Who acts:** arms · **What happens:** train, bend · **To what, where:** hands, bow

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This is Psalms 18:35 · 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 (arms), 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:246
# text = Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traineth	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **train** | present |  | my hands |  |  |  | for war | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | present · do-support | mine arms | a bow of brass |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material |

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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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מְלַמֵּ֣ד יָ֭דַי לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וְֽנִחֲתָ֥ה קֶֽשֶׁת־נְ֝חוּשָׁ֗ה זְרוֹעֹתָֽי׃

[Psalms 18:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.35/)

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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:246` 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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