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title: Psalms 75:8 (JPS 1917) — For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another. · tree and pragmatics
description: For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another. Who acts: God. Psalms 75:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 75:8 · JPS 1917

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For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** be, put down, lift up · **To what, where:** judge, one, another

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This is Psalms 75:8 · 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 (God), 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:1285
# text = For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	putteth	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lifteth	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | God | judge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put down** | present | God | one |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |
| 3 | **lift up** | present | God *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |

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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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כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֥ים שֹׁפֵ֑ט זֶ֥ה יַ֝שְׁפִּ֗יל וְזֶ֣ה יָרִֽים׃

[Psalms 75:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.8/)

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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:1285` 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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