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title: Psalms 146:3 (JPS 1917) — Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Who acts: you, help, your. Psalms 146:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 146:3 · JPS 1917

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Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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**Who acts:** you, help, your · **What happens:** not put, be, trust · **To what, where:** trust

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This is Psalms 146:3 · 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 (you, help, your), 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:2639
# text = Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | your trust |  |  |  | in princes nor the son of man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trust=Theme in prince=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | present | no help |  |  | there |  | in man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in whom=Location |
| 3 | **trust** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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אַל־תִּבְטְח֥וּ בִנְדִיבִ֑ים בְּבֶן־אָדָ֓ם ׀ שֶׁ֤אֵֽין ל֥וֹ תְשׁוּעָֽה׃

[Psalms 146:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.3/)

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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:2639` 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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