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title: Psalms 6:6 (JPS 1917) — For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the nether-world wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the nether-world who will give Thee thanks? Who acts: remembrance. Psalms 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 6:6 · JPS 1917

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For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the nether-world who will give Thee thanks?

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**Who acts:** remembrance · **What happens:** be, give, remember · **To what, where:** thanks, Thee, nether world

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This is Psalms 6:6 · 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 (remembrance), 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:60
# text = For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the nether-world who will give Thee thanks?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	iobj	_	_
20	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no remembrance of Thee |  |  | there |  | for death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | future |  | thanks | Thee | the nether world |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient thanks=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** |  |  | Thee |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition 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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כִּ֤י אֵ֣ין בַּמָּ֣וֶת זִכְרֶ֑ךָ בִּ֝שְׁא֗וֹל מִ֣י יֽוֹדֶה־לָּֽךְ׃

[Psalms 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.6/)

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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:60` 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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