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title: Psalms 108:14 (JPS 1917) — Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries. Who acts: we. Psalms 108:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 108:14 · JPS 1917

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Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** do, be, tread down · **To what, where:** God, adversaries

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This is Psalms 108:14 · 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 (we), 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:2012
# text = Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	valiantly	valiantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | through God; valiantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | we *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tread down** | future |  | our adversaries |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location adversary=Theme |

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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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בֵּֽאלֹהִ֥ים נַעֲשֶׂה־חָ֑יִל וְ֝ה֗וּא יָב֥וּס צָרֵֽינוּ׃

[Psalms 108:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.14/)

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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:2012` 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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