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title: Psalms 9:20 (JPS 1917) — Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy sight. Who acts: you, man, nations, Thy. Psalms 9:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 9:20 · JPS 1917

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Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy sight.

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**Who acts:** you, man, nations, Thy · **What happens:** arise, not let, prevail, let, judge, sight · **To what, where:** sight

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This is Psalms 9:20 · 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, man, nations, Thy), 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:115
# text = Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy sight.
1	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevail** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | the nations |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **judge** | infinitive · passive | the nations *not said here* |  |  | Thy sight |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |
| 6 | **sight** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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קוּמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אַל־יָעֹ֣ז אֱנ֑וֹשׁ יִשָּׁפְט֥וּ ג֝וֹיִ֗ם עַל־פָּנֶֽיךָ׃

[Psalms 9:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.20/)

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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:115` 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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