--- title: Psalms 27:1 (JPS 1917) — The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? · tree and pragmatics description: The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Who acts: LORD, I, my. Psalms 27:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.395/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/27/) / [27:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.1/) / JPS 2 # Psalms 27:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? **Who acts:** LORD, I, my · **What happens:** be, fear, salve · **To what, where:** light This is Psalms 27:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 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 (LORD, I, my), 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:395 # text = The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 salvation salvation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, indirect=1, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the LORD | my light and my salvation | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fear** | shall | I | my light and my salvation | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 3 | **salve** | | my | | | | | | nom salvation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אוֹרִ֣י וְ֭יִשְׁעִי מִמִּ֣י אִירָ֑א יְהוָ֥ה מָֽעוֹז־חַ֝יַּ֗י מִמִּ֥י אֶפְחָֽד׃ [Psalms 27:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.1/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [A Psalm of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.394/) 2. **The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?** 3. [The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.396/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:395` 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. - ← previous: [Psalms 27:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.394/) - next →: [Psalms 27:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.396/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 27:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.1/)