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title: Psalms 48:7 (JPS 1917) — Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail. · tree and pragmatics
description: Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail. Who acts: Trembling. Psalms 48:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 48:7 · JPS 1917

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Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.

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**Who acts:** Trembling · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** hold

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This is Psalms 48:7 · 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 (Trembling), 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:787
# text = Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.
1	Trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pangs	pang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | Trembling | hold |  | there |  | of God | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hold=Theme of 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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רְ֭עָדָה אֲחָזָ֣תַם שָׁ֑ם חִ֝֗יל כַּיּוֹלֵֽדָה׃

[Psalms 48:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.7/)

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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:787` 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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