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title: Psalms 49:9 (JPS 1917) — For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alon… · tree and pragmatics
description: For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever — Who acts: redemption. Psalms 49:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 49:9 · JPS 1917

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For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever —

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**Who acts:** redemption · **What happens:** be, let, redeem · **To what, where:** soul

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This is Psalms 49:9 · 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 (redemption), 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:804
# text = For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever —
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | the redemption of means's soul |  |  |  |  | costly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | must · passive | the redemption of means's soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: for ever=Asset |
| 3 | **redeem** |  |  | means's soul |  |  |  |  | nom redemption «act 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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וְ֭יֵקַר פִּדְי֥וֹן נַפְשָׁ֗ם וְחָדַ֥ל לְעוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 49:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.9/)

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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:804` 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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