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title: Psalms 4:7 (JPS 1917) — Many there are that say: 'Oh that we could see some good!' LORD, lif… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many there are that say: 'Oh that we could see some good!' LORD, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us. Who acts: Many, we, Thou. Psalms 4:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 4:7 · JPS 1917

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Many there are that say: 'Oh that we could see some good!' LORD, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us.

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**Who acts:** Many, we, Thou · **What happens:** be, say, see, lift up, light · **To what, where:** good, light, countenance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 4:7 · 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, we, Thou), 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:37
# text = Many there are that say: 'Oh that we could see some good!' LORD, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us.
1	Many	many	PRON	JJ	Number=Plur|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Many |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | could | we | some good |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lift up** | infinitive | Thou | the light of Thy countenance |  |  |  | upon us; LORD *vocative* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme upon we=Destination |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | Thy countenance |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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רַבִּ֥ים אֹמְרִים֮ מִֽי־יַרְאֵ֪נ֫וּט֥וֹב נְֽסָה־עָ֭לֵינוּ א֨וֹר פָּנֶ֬יךָ יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.4.7/)

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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:37` 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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