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title: Psalms 112:9 (JPS 1917) — He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy; his righteousn… · tree and pragmatics
description: He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honour. Who acts: heart, righteousness. Psalms 112:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 112:9 · JPS 1917

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He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honour.

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**Who acts:** heart, righteousness · **What happens:** scatter, give, endure, exalt · **To what, where:** needy, horn, honour

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This is Psalms 112:9 · 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 (heart, righteousness), 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:2072
# text = He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted in honour.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	needy	needy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	endureth	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present · perfect | heart |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | heart |  | the needy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to needy=Recipient |
| 3 | **endure** | present | heart's righteousness |  |  |  |  | for ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **exalt** | shall · passive |  | heart's horn |  | honour |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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פִּזַּ֤ר ׀ נָ֘תַ֤ן לָאֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים צִ֭דְקָתוֹ עֹמֶ֣דֶת לָעַ֑ד קַ֝רְנ֗וֹ תָּר֥וּם בְּכָבֽוֹד׃

[Psalms 112:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.112.9/)

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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:2072` 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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