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title: Psalms 27:14 (JPS 1917) — Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD. Who acts: you, heart, thou. Psalms 27:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 27:14 · JPS 1917

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Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.

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**Who acts:** you, heart, thou · **What happens:** wait, be, let, take · **To what, where:** heart, courage

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This is Psalms 27:14 · 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, heart, thou), 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:409
# text = Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
14	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the LORD | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lord=Location |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy heart |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | thy heart *not said here* | courage |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | for the LORD | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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קַוֵּ֗ה אֶל־יְה֫וָ֥ה חֲ֭זַק וְיַאֲמֵ֣ץ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝קַוֵּ֗ה אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃

[Psalms 27:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.14/)

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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:409` 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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