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title: Psalms 144:5 (JPS 1917) — O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that th… · tree and pragmatics
description: O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. Who acts: you, mountains. Psalms 144:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 144:5 · JPS 1917

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O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

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**Who acts:** you, mountains · **What happens:** bow, come down, touch, smoke · **To what, where:** heavens, mountains

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This is Psalms 144:5 · 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 (you, mountains), 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:2603
# text = O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy heavens |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Topic |
| 2 | **come down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | infinitive |  | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **smoke** | may | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃

[Psalms 144:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.5/)

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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:2603` 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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