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title: Psalms 29:5 (JPS 1917) — The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in… · tree and pragmatics
description: The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. Who acts: voice, LORD. Psalms 29:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 29:5 · JPS 1917

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The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** voice, LORD · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** cedars, pieces

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This is Psalms 29:5 · 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 (voice, 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:425
# text = The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	breaketh	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	breaketh	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | the voice of the LORD | the cedars |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cedar=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present | the LORD | the cedars of Lebanon |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cedar=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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ק֣וֹל יְ֭הוָה שֹׁבֵ֣ר אֲרָזִ֑ים וַיְשַׁבֵּ֥ר יְ֝הוָ֗ה אֶת־אַרְזֵ֥י הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃

[Psalms 29:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.5/)

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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:425` 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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