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title: Psalms 30:8 (JPS 1917) — Thou hadst established, O LORD, in Thy favour my mountain as a stron… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hadst established, O LORD, in Thy favour my mountain as a stronghold — Thou didst hide Thy face; I was affrighted. Who acts: Thou, I, Thy. Psalms 30:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 30:8 · JPS 1917

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Thou hadst established, O LORD, in Thy favour my mountain as a stronghold — Thou didst hide Thy face; I was affrighted.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, Thy · **What happens:** establish, hide, be, favour · **To what, where:** mountain, favour, face

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This is Psalms 30:8 · 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 (Thou, I, Thy), 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:439
# text = Thou hadst established, O LORD, in Thy favour my mountain as a stronghold — Thou didst hide Thy face; I was affrighted.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	affrighted	affright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · perfect | Thou | my mountain |  | Thy favour |  | as a stronghold; LORD *vocative* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | past · do-support | Thou | Thy face |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | affright *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **favour** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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יְֽהוָ֗ה בִּרְצוֹנְךָ֮ הֶעֱמַ֪דְתָּה לְֽהַרְרִ֫י עֹ֥ז הִסְתַּ֥רְתָּ פָנֶ֗יךָ הָיִ֥יתִי נִבְהָֽל׃

[Psalms 30:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.8/)

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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:439` 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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