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title: Psalms 50:7 (JPS 1917) — 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify a… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I. Who acts: you, I. Psalms 50:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 50:7 · JPS 1917

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'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hear, speak, testify, be · **To what, where:** God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 50:7 · 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 (you, I), 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:824
# text = 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	testify	testify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
29	I.	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My people *vocative*; Israel *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **testify** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  | against thee | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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שִׁמְעָ֤ה עַמִּ֨י ׀ וַאֲדַבֵּ֗רָה יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל וְאָעִ֣ידָה בָּ֑ךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֱלֹהֶ֣יךָ אָנֹֽכִי׃

[Psalms 50:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.7/)

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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:824` 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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