--- title: Psalms 84:12 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD giveth grace and gl… · tree and pragmatics description: For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD giveth grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. Who acts: LORD God, LORD, God. Psalms 84:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1495/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/84/) / [84:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.12/) / JPS 1 # Psalms 84:12 · JPS 1917 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD giveth grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. **Who acts:** LORD God, LORD, God · **What happens:** be, give, withhold, walk · **To what, where:** sun, grace, good thing This is Psalms 84:12 · 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 (LORD God, LORD, 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:1495 # text = For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD giveth grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. 1 For for ADP IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 withhold withhold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 uprightly uprightly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the LORD God | a sun and a shield | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | the LORD | grace and glory | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Theme | | 3 | **withhold** | future | God | no good thing | | | | from grace | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | present | | | | | | uprightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 {#hebrew} כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨מֶשׁ ׀ וּמָגֵן֮ יְהוָ֪ה אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים חֵ֣ן וְ֭כָבוֹד יִתֵּ֣ן יְהוָ֑ה לֹ֥א יִמְנַע־ט֝֗וֹב לַֽהֹלְכִ֥ים בְּתָמִֽים׃ [Psalms 84:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1495` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 84:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1494/) - next →: [Psalms 84:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1496/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 84:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.12/)