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title: Psalms 144:1 (JPS 1917) — Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; Who acts: LORD. Psalms 144:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 144:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** bless, train · **To what, where:** LORD, hands

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This is Psalms 144:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (LORD), 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:2599
# text = Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
1	Blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	aux:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Rock	rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	traineth	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **train** | present | the LORD | my hands |  |  |  | for war | 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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לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ בָּ֘ר֤וּךְ יְהוָ֨ה ׀ צוּרִ֗י הַֽמְלַמֵּ֣ד יָדַ֣י לַקְרָ֑ב אֶ֝צְבְּעוֹתַ֗י לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

[Psalms 144:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2598/)
2. **Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;**

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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:2599` 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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