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title: Psalms 49:12 (JPS 1917) — Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Who acts: houses, means. Psalms 49:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 49:12 · JPS 1917

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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

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**Who acts:** houses, means · **What happens:** continue, call, think, name · **To what, where:** lands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 49:12 · 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 (houses, means), 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:807
# text = Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | shall | means's houses |  |  |  |  | for ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | houses *= house* | means's lands |  |  | after means's own names |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient |
| 3 | **think** |  | means |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **name** |  | means |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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קִרְבָּ֤ם בָּתֵּ֨ימוֹ ׀ לְֽעוֹלָ֗ם מִ֭שְׁכְּנֹתָם לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹ֑ר קָֽרְא֥וּ בִ֝שְׁמוֹתָ֗ם עֲלֵ֣י אֲדָמֽוֹת׃

[Psalms 49:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.12/)

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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:807` 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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