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title: Psalms 136:10 (JPS 1917) — To Him that smote Egypt in their first-born, for His mercy endureth… · tree and pragmatics
description: To Him that smote Egypt in their first-born, for His mercy endureth for ever; Who acts: mercy. Psalms 136:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 136:10 · JPS 1917

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To Him that smote Egypt in their first-born, for His mercy endureth for ever;

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**Who acts:** mercy · **What happens:** smite, endure · **To what, where:** Egypt, mercy, first born

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This is Psalms 136:10 · 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 (mercy), 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:2488
# text = To Him that smote Egypt in their first-born, for His mercy endureth for ever;
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
4	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	born	born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	endureth	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **smite** | past |  | Egypt | mercy | stars's first born |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent egypt=Patient to he=Result |
| 2 | **endure** | present | mercy's mercy |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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לְמַכֵּ֣ה מִ֭צְרַיִם בִּבְכוֹרֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 136:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.10/)

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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:2488` 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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