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title: Psalms 139:8 (JPS 1917) — If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there. Who acts: I, Thou. Psalms 139:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 139:8 · JPS 1917

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If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** ascend up, be, make · **To what, where:** heaven, bed, nether world

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This is Psalms 139:8 · 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 (I, Thou), 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:2532
# text = If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ascend	ascend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
23	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **ascend up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | my bed |  | the nether world |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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אִם־אֶסַּ֣ק שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑תָּה וְאַצִּ֖יעָה שְּׁא֣וֹל הִנֶּֽךָּ׃

[Psalms 139:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/)

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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:2532` 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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