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title: Psalms 146:5 (JPS 1917) — Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LOR… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, Who acts: breath, help, hope, God. Psalms 146:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 146:5 · JPS 1917

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Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

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**Who acts:** breath, help, hope, God, LORD · **What happens:** be, help, hope · **To what, where:** God

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This is Psalms 146:5 · 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 (breath, help, hope, God), 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:2641
# text = Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | present | breath |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the God's help | the God |  |  |  | of Jacob | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the LORD's hope |  |  |  |  | in the LORD | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** |  | the God |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **hope** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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אַשְׁרֵ֗י שֶׁ֤אֵ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֣ב בְּעֶזְר֑וֹ שִׂ֝בְר֗וֹ עַל־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

[Psalms 146:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.5/)

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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:2641` 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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