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title: Psalms 34:11 (JPS 1917) — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the L… · tree and pragmatics
description: The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing. Who acts: young lions, lions. Psalms 34:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 34:11 · JPS 1917

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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing.

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**Who acts:** young lions, lions · **What happens:** lack, suffer, seek, not want · **To what, where:** hunger, LORD, good thing

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This is Psalms 34:11 · 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 (young lions, lions), 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:516
# text = The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** | present · do-support | the young lions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffer** | present | the young lions *not said here* | hunger |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seek** | present |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **want** | present | lions *= lion* | any good thing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |

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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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כְּ֭פִירִים רָשׁ֣וּ וְרָעֵ֑בוּ וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹא־יַחְסְר֥וּ כָל־טֽוֹב׃

[Psalms 34:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.11/)

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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:516` 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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