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title: Psalms 30:10 (JPS 1917) — Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth? · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth? Who acts: dust. Psalms 30:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 30:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?

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**Who acts:** dust · **What happens:** praise, declare · **To what, where:** Thee, truth

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This is Psalms 30:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (dust), 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:442
# text = Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
5	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **praise** | shall | the dust | Thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | shall | dust | Thy truth |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Attribute |

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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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מַה־בֶּ֥צַע בְּדָמִי֮ בְּרִדְתִּ֪י אֶ֫ל־שָׁ֥חַת הֲיוֹדְךָ֥ עָפָ֑ר הֲיַגִּ֥יד אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃

[Psalms 30:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. ['What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.441/)
2. **Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?**

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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:442` 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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