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title: Psalms 17:2 (JPS 1917) — Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity. Who acts: judgment, eyes, my. Psalms 17:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 17:2 · JPS 1917

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Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity.

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**Who acts:** judgment, eyes, my · **What happens:** let, come, behold, judge · **To what, where:** presence, equity

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This is Psalms 17:2 · 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 (judgment, eyes, my), 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:197
# text = Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	equity	equity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | my judgment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | my judgment *not said here* |  |  | Thy presence |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Thine eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **behold** | infinitive | Thine eyes *not said here* | equity |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer equity=Stimulus |
| 5 | **judge** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: 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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מִ֭לְּפָנֶיךָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י יֵצֵ֑א עֵ֝ינֶ֗יךָ תֶּחֱזֶ֥ינָה מֵישָׁרִֽים׃

[Psalms 17:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.2/)

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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:197` 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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