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title: Psalms 136:15 (JPS 1917) — But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His mercy end… · tree and pragmatics
description: But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His mercy endureth for ever. Who acts: mercy. Psalms 136:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 136:15 · JPS 1917

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But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His mercy endureth for ever.

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**Who acts:** mercy · **What happens:** overthrow, endure · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, Red Sea

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This is Psalms 136:15 · 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:2493
# text = But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His mercy endureth for ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	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	2	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 | **overthrow** | past |  | Pharaoh and mercy's host |  | the Red Sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 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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וְנִ֘עֵ֤ר פַּרְעֹ֣ה וְחֵיל֣וֹ בְיַם־ס֑וּף כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 136:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.15/)

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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:2493` 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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