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title: Psalms 50:12 (JPS 1917) — If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof. Who acts: I, world. Psalms 50:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 50:12 · JPS 1917

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If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.

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**Who acts:** I, world · **What happens:** be, not tell · **To what, where:** thee, Mine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 50:12 · 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 (I, world), 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:829
# text = If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	iobj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fulness	fulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | would | I |  | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the world | Mine |  |  |  |  | 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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אִם־אֶ֭רְעַב לֹא־אֹ֣מַר לָ֑ךְ כִּי־לִ֥י תֵ֝בֵ֗ל וּמְלֹאָֽהּ׃

[Psalms 50:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.12/)

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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:829` 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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