--- title: Psalms 27:1 (JPS 1917) — The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? · tree and pragmatics description: The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Who acts: LORD, I. 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.396/) [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 3 # Psalms 27:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? **Who acts:** LORD, I · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** stronghold This is Psalms 27:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 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), 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:396 # text = The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stronghold stronghold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the LORD | the stronghold | | | | of my life | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | of the stronghold; afraid *property* | tree rules | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.395/) 3. **The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:396` 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.395/) - next →: [Psalms 27:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.397/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 27:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.1/)