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title: Psalms 141:7 (JPS 1917) — As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scatte… · tree and pragmatics
description: As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth. Who acts: one. Psalms 141:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 141:7 · JPS 1917

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As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** cleave, break up, scatter · **To what, where:** earth, bones, mouth

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This is Psalms 141:7 · 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 (one), 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:2573
# text = As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cleaveth	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	breaketh	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break up** | present | one *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **scatter** | present · passive |  | our bones |  | the grave's mouth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at mouth=Destination |

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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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כְּמ֤וֹ פֹלֵ֣חַ וּבֹקֵ֣עַ בָּאָ֑רֶץ נִפְזְר֥וּ עֲ֝צָמֵ֗ינוּ לְפִ֣י שְׁאֽוֹל׃

[Psalms 141:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.7/)

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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:2573` 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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