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title: Psalms 97:2 (JPS 1917) — Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Who acts: Clouds, righteousness. Psalms 97:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 97:2 · JPS 1917

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Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

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**Who acts:** Clouds, righteousness · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** foundation

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This is Psalms 97:2 · 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 (Clouds, righteousness), 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:1726
# text = Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Clouds and darkness |  |  |  |  | about multitude; round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | righteousness and justice | the foundation |  |  |  | of multitude's throne | 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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עָנָ֣ן וַעֲרָפֶ֣ל סְבִיבָ֑יו צֶ֥דֶק וּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט מְכ֣וֹן כִּסְאֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 97:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.2/)

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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:1726` 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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