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title: Psalms 22:13 (JPS 1917) — Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Who acts: Many bulls, strong bulls. Psalms 22:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 22:13 · JPS 1917

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Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

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**Who acts:** Many bulls, strong bulls · **What happens:** encompass, beset · **To what, where:** me

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This is Psalms 22:13 · 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 (Many bulls, strong bulls), 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:320
# text = Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	encompassed	encompass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	beset	beset	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encompass** | present · perfect | Many bulls | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 2 | **beset** | present · perfect | strong bulls of Bashan | me |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |

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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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סְ֭בָבוּנִי פָּרִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃

[Psalms 22:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.13/)

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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:320` 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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