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title: Psalms 136:21 (JPS 1917) — And gave their land for a heritage, for His mercy endureth for ever; · tree and pragmatics
description: And gave their land for a heritage, for His mercy endureth for ever; Who acts: mercy. Psalms 136:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 136:21 · JPS 1917

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And gave their land for a heritage, for His mercy endureth for ever;

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**Who acts:** mercy · **What happens:** give, endure · **To what, where:** land

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This is Psalms 136:21 · 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:2499
# text = And gave their land for a heritage, for His mercy endureth for ever;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	endureth	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	_	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	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 | **give** | past |  | kings's land |  |  |  | for a heritage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent land=Theme for heritage=Asset |
| 2 | **endure** | present | mercy's mercy |  |  |  |  | for ever | 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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וְנָתַ֣ן אַרְצָ֣ם לְנַחֲלָ֑ה כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 136:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.21/)

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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:2499` 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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