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title: Psalms 32:2 (JPS 1917) — Happy is the man unto whom the LORD counteth not iniquity, and in wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy is the man unto whom the LORD counteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Who acts: man, LORD, guile. Psalms 32:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 32:2 · JPS 1917

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Happy is the man unto whom the LORD counteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

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**Who acts:** man, LORD, guile · **What happens:** be, not count · **To what, where:** iniquity, spirit

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This is Psalms 32:2 · 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 (man, LORD, guile), 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:474
# text = Happy is the man unto whom the LORD counteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	counteth	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	guile	guile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | the man |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **count** | present | the LORD | iniquity |  |  |  | unto the man | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no guile |  |  | spirit; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location |

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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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אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָ֗ם לֹ֤א יַחְשֹׁ֬ב יְהוָ֣ה ל֣וֹ עָוֺ֑ן וְאֵ֖ין בְּרוּח֣וֹ רְמִיָּה׃

[Psalms 32:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.2/)

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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:474` 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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