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title: Psalms 55:7 (JPS 1917) — And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest. Who acts: I. Psalms 55:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:7 · JPS 1917

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And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, have, fly away, be · **To what, where:** wings, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 55:7 · 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 (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:898
# text = And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Sub|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | wings |  |  |  | like a dove | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **fly away** | would | I |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | rest |  |  | 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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וָאֹמַ֗ר מִֽי־יִתֶּן־לִּ֣י אֵ֭בֶר כַּיּוֹנָ֗ה אָע֥וּפָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּֽנָה׃

[Psalms 55:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.7/)

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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:898` 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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