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title: Psalms 10:18 (JPS 1917) — To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more. Who acts: man. Psalms 10:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 10:18 · JPS 1917

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To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** right, be · **To what, where:** fatherless

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This is Psalms 10:18 · 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 (man), 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:135
# text = To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	right	right	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fatherless	fatherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	oppressed	oppressed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **right** | to-infinitive | that man *not said here* | the fatherless and the oppressed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that man |  |  |  |  | of the earth | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | may | that man |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | 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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לִשְׁפֹּ֥ט יָת֗וֹם וָ֫דָ֥ךְ בַּל־יוֹסִ֥יף ע֑וֹד לַעֲרֹ֥ץ אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 10:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.18/)

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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:135` 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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