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title: Psalms 130:3 (JPS 1917) — If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? · tree and pragmatics
description: If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? Who acts: Thou. Psalms 130:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 130:3 · JPS 1917

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If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** mark, stand · **To what, where:** iniquities

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This is Psalms 130:3 · 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 (Thou), 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:2421
# text = If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
8	iniquities	iniquity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Thou | iniquities |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent iniquity=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | could |  |  |  |  |  | Lord *vocative* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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אִם־עֲוֺנ֥וֹת תִּשְׁמָר־יָ֑הּ אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד׃

[Psalms 130:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.3/)

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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:2421` 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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