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title: Psalms 144:12 (JPS 1917) — We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters… · tree and pragmatics
description: We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace; Who acts: sons, daughters. Psalms 144:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 144:12 · JPS 1917

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We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;

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**Who acts:** sons, daughters · **What happens:** be, grow up, carve · **To what, where:** plants, youth, corner pillars

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This is Psalms 144:12 · 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 (sons, daughters), 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:2610
# text = We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	acl:relcl	_	_
20	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | plants's sons |  |  |  |  | as plants | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  | plants *not said here* |  | plants's youth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in youth=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | corner pillars's daughters |  |  |  |  | as corner pillars | tree rules |
| 4 | **carve** | participle |  | corner pillars *not said here* |  |  | after the fashion of a palace |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃

[Psalms 144:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/)

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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:2610` 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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