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title: Psalms 12:6 (JPS 1917) — 'For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now w… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise', saith the LORD; 'I will set him in safety at whom they puff.' Who acts: I, LORD, things. Psalms 12:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 12:6 · JPS 1917

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'For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise', saith the LORD; 'I will set him in safety at whom they puff.'

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**Who acts:** I, LORD, things · **What happens:** arise, say, set, puff · **To what, where:** LORD, safety · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 12:6 · 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, LORD, things), 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:151
# text = 'For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise', saith the LORD; 'I will set him in safety at whom they puff.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
20	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	puff	puff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | future | I |  |  |  | now | for the oppression of the poor; for the sighing of the needy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **set** | future | I | LORD |  | safety |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in safety=Destination |
| 4 | **puff** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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מִשֹּׁ֥ד עֲנִיִּים֮ מֵאַנְקַ֪ת אֶבְי֫וֹנִ֥ים עַתָּ֣ה אָ֭קוּם יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה אָשִׁ֥ית בְּ֝יֵ֗שַׁע יָפִ֥יחַֽ לֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.6/)

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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:151` 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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