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title: Psalms 49:19 (JPS 1917) — Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself'; Who acts: wealth, Men, thou. Psalms 49:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 49:19 · JPS 1917

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Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';

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**Who acts:** wealth, Men, thou · **What happens:** live, bless, praise, do · **To what, where:** soul, thee

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This is Psalms 49:19 · 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 (wealth, Men, 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:814
# text = Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | wealth |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | past | wealth | wealth's soul |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 3 | **praise** | future | Men | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | to thyself; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּֽי־נַ֭פְשׁוֹ בְּחַיָּ֣יו יְבָרֵ֑ךְ וְ֝יוֹדֻ֗ךָ כִּי־תֵיטִ֥יב לָֽךְ׃

[Psalms 49:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.19/)

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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:814` 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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