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title: Psalms 30:12 (JPS 1917) — Thou didst turn for me my mourning into dancing; Thou didst loose my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou didst turn for me my mourning into dancing; Thou didst loose my sackcloth, and gird me with gladness; Who acts: Thou, my. Psalms 30:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 30:12 · JPS 1917

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Thou didst turn for me my mourning into dancing; Thou didst loose my sackcloth, and gird me with gladness;

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**Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** turn, loose, gird, mourn · **To what, where:** mourning, dancing, sackcloth, me

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This is Psalms 30:12 · 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, my), 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:444
# text = Thou didst turn for me my mourning into dancing; Thou didst loose my sackcloth, and gird me with gladness;
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	didst	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	loose	loose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: thank
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=thank, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · do-support | Thou | my mourning |  | dancing |  | for me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mourning=Theme into dancing=Trajectory |
| 2 | **loose** | past · do-support | Thou | my sackcloth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Patient |
| 3 | **gird** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with gladness | tree rules |
| 4 | **mourn** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mourning «state intransitive»: 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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הָפַ֣כְתָּ מִסְפְּדִי֮ לְמָח֪וֹל לִ֥י פִּתַּ֥חְתָּ שַׂקִּ֑י וַֽתְּאַזְּרֵ֥נִי שִׂמְחָֽה׃

[Psalms 30:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.12/)

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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:444` 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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