---
title: Psalms 27:3 (JPS 1917) — Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise up against me, even then will I be confident. Who acts: host, heart, war, I. Psalms 27:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.398/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [27:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.3/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 27:3 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise up against me, even then will I be confident.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** host, heart, war, I · **What happens:** encamp, not fear, rise up, be

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 27:3 · 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 (host, heart, war, 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:398
# text = Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise up against me, even then will I be confident.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	encamp	encamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encamp** | should | a host |  |  |  |  | against me | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | shall | my heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rise up** | should | war |  |  |  |  | against me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against i=Location |
| 4 | **is** | future | I |  |  |  | then | confident *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אִם־תַּחֲנֶ֬ה עָלַ֨י ׀ מַחֲנֶה֮ לֹֽא־יִירָ֪א לִ֫בִּ֥י אִם־תָּק֣וּם עָ֭לַי מִלְחָמָ֑ה בְּ֝זֹ֗את אֲנִ֣י בוֹטֵֽחַ׃

[Psalms 27:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.3/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:398` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 27:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.397/)
- next →: [Psalms 27:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.399/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 27:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.3/)