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title: Psalms 144:6 (JPS 1917) — Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them. Who acts: you. Psalms 144:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 144:6 · JPS 1917

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Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cast, scatter, send out, discomfit · **To what, where:** lightning, heavens, arrows

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This is Psalms 144:6 · 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), 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:2604
# text = Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.
1	Cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	discomfit	discomfit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **cast** | imperative | you *not said here* | lightning |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Product |
| 2 | **scatter** | infinitive | you *not said here* | heavens *= heaven* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **send out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine arrows |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 4 | **discomfit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | heavens *= heaven* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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בְּר֣וֹק בָּ֭רָק וּתְפִיצֵ֑ם שְׁלַ֥ח חִ֝צֶּ֗יךָ וּתְהֻמֵּֽם׃

[Psalms 144:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.6/)

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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:2604` 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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