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title: Psalms 98:9 (JPS 1917) — Before the LORD, for He is come to judge the earth; He will judge th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the LORD, for He is come to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. Who acts: LORD. Psalms 98:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 98:9 · JPS 1917

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Before the LORD, for He is come to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** come, judge · **To what, where:** earth, world

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This is Psalms 98:9 · 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 (LORD), 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:1745
# text = Before the LORD, for He is come to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	equity	equity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | present · passive | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent earth=Value |
| 3 | **judge** | future | LORD | the world and the peoples with equity |  |  | before the LORD | with righteousness | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent world=Value |

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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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לִֽפְֽנֵי־יְהוָ֗ה כִּ֥י בָא֮ לִשְׁפֹּ֪ט הָ֫אָ֥רֶץ יִשְׁפֹּֽט־תֵּבֵ֥ל בְּצֶ֑דֶק וְ֝עַמִּ֗ים בְּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃

[Psalms 98:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.98.9/)

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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:1745` 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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