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title: Psalms 82:3 (JPS 1917) — Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and desti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Who acts: you. Psalms 82:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 82:3 · JPS 1917

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Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** judge, do · **To what, where:** poor, justice

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This is Psalms 82:3 · 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), 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:1458
# text = Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
1	Judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fatherless	fatherless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	afflicted	afflicted	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	destitute	destitute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | imperative | you *not said here* | the poor and fatherless |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent poor=Value |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | justice |  |  |  | to the afflicted and destitute | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |

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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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שִׁפְטוּ־דַ֥ל וְיָת֑וֹם עָנִ֖י וָרָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ׃

[Psalms 82:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.3/)

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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:1458` 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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