---
title: Psalms 51:1 (JPS 1917) — A Psalm of David; When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Psalm of David; When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Who acts: Nathan. Psalms 51:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.843/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/51/) / [51:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.1/) / JPS 2

# Psalms 51:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Psalm of David; When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Nathan · **What happens:** come, go in · **To what, where:** Bath sheba

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 51:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (Nathan), 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:843
# text = A Psalm of David; When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Bath	Bath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Nathan |  |  |  |  | unto David | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go in** | past · perfect | Nathan |  |  | Bath sheba |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sheba=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃

[Psalms 51:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.1/)

<!-- .note -->
This verse in JPS 1917:

<!-- .ens -->
1. [For the Leader.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.842/)
2. **A Psalm of David; When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.**

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:843` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 51:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.842/)
- next →: [Psalms 51:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.844/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 51:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.1/)