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title: Psalms 147:17 (JPS 1917) — He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold? · tree and pragmatics
description: He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold? Who acts: LORD. Psalms 147:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 147:17 · JPS 1917

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He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** cast, stand · **To what, where:** ice, cold

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This is Psalms 147:17 · 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 (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:2664
# text = He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	casteth	cast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | present | LORD | LORD's ice |  |  |  | like crumbs; forth *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Product |
| 2 | **stand** | can |  |  |  | LORD's cold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before cold=Location |

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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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מַשְׁלִ֣יךְ קַֽרְח֣וֹ כְפִתִּ֑ים לִפְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗וֹ מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד׃

[Psalms 147:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.17/)

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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:2664` 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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