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title: Psalms 85:9 (JPS 1917) — I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace un… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly. Who acts: I, God, people. Psalms 85:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 85:9 · JPS 1917

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I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

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**Who acts:** I, God, people · **What happens:** hear, speak, let, not turn back · **To what, where:** peace, people, folly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 85:9 · 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 (I, God, people), 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:1507
# text = I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **hear** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | God |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | God | peace |  |  |  | unto LORD's people and LORD's saints | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **turn back** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | folly |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to folly=Destination |

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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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אֶשְׁמְעָ֗ה מַה־יְדַבֵּר֮ הָאֵ֪ל ׀ יְה֫וָ֥ה כִּ֤י ׀ יְדַבֵּ֬ר שָׁל֗וֹם אֶל־עַמּ֥וֹ וְאֶל־חֲסִידָ֑יו וְֽאַל־יָשׁ֥וּבוּ לְכִסְלָֽה׃

[Psalms 85:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.9/)

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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:1507` 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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