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title: Psalms 28:9 (JPS 1917) — Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; and tend them, and car… · tree and pragmatics
description: Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; and tend them, and carry them for ever. Who acts: you, Thine. Psalms 28:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 28:9 · JPS 1917

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Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; and tend them, and carry them for ever.

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**Who acts:** you, Thine · **What happens:** save, bless, tend, carry, inherit · **To what, where:** people, inheritance

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This is Psalms 28:9 · 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, Thine), 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:419
# text = Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; and tend them, and carry them for ever.
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tend	tend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Thine inheritance |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inheritance=Theme |
| 3 | **tend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  | for *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **inherit** |  | Thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «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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הוֹשִׁ֤יעָה ׀ אֶת־עַמֶּ֗ךָ וּבָרֵ֥ךְ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָ וּֽרְעֵ֥ם וְ֝נַשְּׂאֵ֗ם עַד־הָעוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 28:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.28.9/)

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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:419` 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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