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title: Psalms 7:8 (JPS 1917) — And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over them return Thou on high. Who acts: congregation, Thou. Psalms 7:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 7:8 · JPS 1917

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And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over them return Thou on high.

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**Who acts:** congregation, Thou · **What happens:** let, compass about, return · **To what, where:** Thee

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This is Psalms 7:8 · 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 (congregation, Thou), 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:73
# text = And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over them return Thou on high.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	compass	compass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | infinitive | the congregation of the peoples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **compass about** | infinitive | the congregation of the peoples *not said here* | Thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive | Thou |  |  |  |  | over peoples *= people* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial\_Location |

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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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וַעֲדַ֣ת לְ֭אֻמִּים תְּסוֹבְבֶ֑ךָּ וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ לַמָּר֥וֹם שֽׁוּבָה׃

[Psalms 7:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.8/)

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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:73` 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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