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title: Psalms 30:6 (JPS 1917) — For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time; we… · tree and pragmatics
description: For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time; weeping may tarry for the night, but joy cometh in the morning. Who acts: anger, favour, weeping, joy. Psalms 30:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 30:6 · JPS 1917

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For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time; weeping may tarry for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.

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**Who acts:** anger, favour, weeping, joy, LORD · **What happens:** be, tarry, come, anger, favour

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This is Psalms 30:6 · 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 (anger, favour, weeping, joy), 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:437
# text = For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time; weeping may tarry for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	but	but	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is** | present | LORD's anger |  |  |  | for a moment | but *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | LORD's favour |  |  |  | for a life time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tarry** | may | weeping |  |  |  | night |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | joy |  |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **anger** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **favour** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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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כִּ֤י רֶ֨גַע ׀ בְּאַפּוֹ֮ חַיִּ֪ים בִּרְצ֫וֹנ֥וֹ בָּ֭עֶרֶב יָלִ֥ין בֶּ֗כִי וְלַבֹּ֥קֶר רִנָּֽה׃

[Psalms 30:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.6/)

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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:437` 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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