Psalms 147:8 · JPS 1917

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh the mountains to spring with grass.

Who acts: mountains · What happens: cover, prepare, make, spring · To what, where: heaven, rain, mountains

This is Psalms 147:8 · 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 (mountains), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 covereth	nsubj
2	covereth	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heaven	det
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covereth	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 clouds	case
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covereth	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prepareth	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 prepareth	nsubj
9	prepareth	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 covereth	parataxis
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepareth	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepareth	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 maketh	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 maketh	nsubj
16	maketh	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 covereth	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountains	det
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 maketh	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 spring	mark
20	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 maketh	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 grass	case
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spring	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covereth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present		the heaven	with clouds	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent heaven=Destination with cloud=Theme
2	prepare	present		rain	for the earth	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rain=Product for earth=Beneficiary
3	make	present		the mountains		tree rules
4	spring	to-infinitive	the mountains not said here		with grass	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

הַֽמְכַסֶּ֬ה שָׁמַ֨יִם ׀ בְּעָבִ֗ים הַמֵּכִ֣ין לָאָ֣רֶץ מָטָ֑ר הַמַּצְמִ֖יחַ הָרִ֣ים חָצִֽיר׃

Psalms 147:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PSA:2655 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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