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title: Psalms 49:5 (JPS 1917) — I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upo… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Who acts: I, my. Psalms 49:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 49:5 · JPS 1917

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I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** incline, open, say · **To what, where:** ear, dark saying · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 49:5 · 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 (I, my), 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:800
# text = I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **incline** | future | I | mine ear |  |  |  | to a parable | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to parable=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | future | I | my dark saying |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saying=Theme |
| 3 | **say** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אַטֶּ֣ה לְמָשָׁ֣ל אָזְנִ֑י אֶפְתַּ֥ח בְּ֝כִנּ֗וֹר חִידָתִֽי׃

[Psalms 49:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.5/)

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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:800` 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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