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title: Psalms 3:3 (JPS 1917) — Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah Who acts: Many, salvation. Psalms 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 3:3 · JPS 1917

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Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah

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**Who acts:** Many, salvation · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 3:3 · 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 (Many, salvation), 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:23
# text = Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah
1	Many	many	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
21	Selah	Selah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Many |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of my soul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | present | no salvation for LORD |  |  | there |  | in God | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in god=Location |

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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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רַבִּים֮ אֹמְרִ֪ים לְנַ֫פְשִׁ֥י אֵ֤ין יְֽשׁוּעָ֓תָה לּ֬וֹ בֵֽאלֹהִ֬ים סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.3.3/)

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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:23` 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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