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title: Psalms 103:9 (JPS 1917) — He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever. · tree and pragmatics
description: He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever. Who acts: LORD. Psalms 103:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 103:9 · JPS 1917

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He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** not contend, keep, anger · **To what, where:** anger

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This is Psalms 103:9 · 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:1809
# text = He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **contend** | future | LORD |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | future | LORD | LORD's anger |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 3 | **anger** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֹֽא־לָנֶ֥צַח יָרִ֑יב וְלֹ֖א לְעוֹלָ֣ם יִטּֽוֹר׃

[Psalms 103:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.9/)

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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:1809` 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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