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title: Psalms 20:4 (JPS 1917) — Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings, and accept the fat o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings, and accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah Who acts: you, thy. Psalms 20:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 20:4 · JPS 1917

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Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings, and accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** receive, accept, burn, offer, sacrifice · **To what, where:** memorial, fat

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This is Psalms 20:4 · 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, thy), 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:285
# text = Receive the memorial of all thy meal-offerings, and accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah
1	Receive	receive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Selah	selah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | imperative | you *not said here* | the memorial of thy meal offerings |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memorial=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fat of thy burnt sacrifice |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **sacrifice** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: 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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יִזְכֹּ֥ר כָּל־מִנְחֹתֶ֑ךָ וְעוֹלָתְךָ֖ יְדַשְּׁנֶ֣ה סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 20:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.20.4/)

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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:285` 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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