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title: Psalms 18:40 (JPS 1917) — For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast sub… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 18:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 18:40 · JPS 1917

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For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** gird, subdue, rise up · **To what, where:** me, those

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This is Psalms 18:40 · 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:251
# text = For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	girded	gird	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gird** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  |  |  | with strength; unto the battle | tree rules |
| 2 | **subdue** | present · perfect | Thou | those |  |  |  | under me | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **rise up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | against me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against i=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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וַתְּאַזְּרֵ֣נִי חַ֭יִל לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה תַּכְרִ֖יעַ קָמַ֣י תַּחְתָּֽי׃

[Psalms 18:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.40/)

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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:251` 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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