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title: Psalms 18:32 (JPS 1917) — For who is God, save the LORD? · tree and pragmatics
description: For who is God, save the LORD? Psalms 18:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 18:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For who is God, save the LORD?

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**What happens:** be, save · **To what, where:** God, LORD

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This is Psalms 18:32 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:242
# text = For who is God, save the LORD?
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=wh, act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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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כִּ֤י מִ֣י אֱ֭לוֹהַּ מִבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וּמִ֥י צ֝֗וּר זוּלָתִ֥י אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

[Psalms 18:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.32/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For who is God, save the LORD?**
2. [And who is a Rock, except our God?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.243/)

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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:242` 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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