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title: Psalms 99:4 (JPS 1917) — The strength also of the king who loveth justice — Thou hast establi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The strength also of the king who loveth justice — Thou hast established equity, Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Who acts: king, Thou. Psalms 99:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 99:4 · JPS 1917

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The strength also of the king who loveth justice — Thou hast established equity, Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

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**Who acts:** king, Thou · **What happens:** love, establish, execute · **To what, where:** justice, equity, Jacob

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This is Psalms 99:4 · 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 (king, Thou), 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:1749
# text = The strength also of the king who loveth justice — Thou hast established equity, Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loveth	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
14	equity	equity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
19	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | the king | justice |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer justice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **establish** | present · perfect | Thou | equity |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equity=Patient |
| 3 | **execute** | present · perfect | Thou | justice and righteousness |  | Jacob |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Patient |

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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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וְעֹ֥ז מֶלֶךְ֮ מִשְׁפָּ֪ט אָ֫הֵ֥ב אַ֭תָּה כּוֹנַ֣נְתָּ מֵישָׁרִ֑ים מִשְׁפָּ֥ט וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה בְּיַעֲקֹ֤ב ׀ אַתָּ֬ה עָשִֽׂיתָ׃

[Psalms 99:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.99.4/)

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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:1749` 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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