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title: Psalms 36:8 (JPS 1917) — How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings. Who acts: lovingkindness, children. Psalms 36:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 36:8 · JPS 1917

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How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings.

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**Who acts:** lovingkindness, children · **What happens:** be, take, shadow · **To what, where:** refuge, shadow, wings

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This is Psalms 36:8 · 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 (lovingkindness, children), 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:567
# text = How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lovingkindness	lovingkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=excl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy lovingkindness |  |  |  |  | God *vocative*; precious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the children of men | refuge |  | the shadow of Thy wings |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in shadow=Location |
| 3 | **shadow** |  |  | Thy wings |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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־יָּקָ֥ר חַסְדְּךָ֗ אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים וּבְנֵ֥י אָדָ֑ם בְּצֵ֥ל כְּ֝נָפֶ֗יךָ יֶחֱסָיֽוּן׃

[Psalms 36:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.36.8/)

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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:567` 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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