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title: Psalms 21:8 (JPS 1917) — For the king trusteth in the LORD, yea, in the mercy of the Most Hig… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the king trusteth in the LORD, yea, in the mercy of the Most High; he shall not be moved. Who acts: king. Psalms 21:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 21:8 · JPS 1917

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For the king trusteth in the LORD, yea, in the mercy of the Most High; he shall not be moved.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** trust, not move · **To what, where:** mercy, king

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This is Psalms 21:8 · 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 (king), 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:300
# text = For the king trusteth in the LORD, yea, in the mercy of the Most High; he shall not be moved.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trusteth	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	High	High	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | the king |  |  | the mercy of the High |  | in the LORD | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **move** | shall · passive |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |

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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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כִּֽי־הַ֭מֶּלֶךְ בֹּטֵ֣חַ בַּיהוָ֑ה וּבְחֶ֥סֶד עֶ֝לְי֗וֹן בַּל־יִמּֽוֹט׃

[Psalms 21:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.21.8/)

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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:300` 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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