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title: Psalms 5:13 (JPS 1917) — For Thou dost bless the righteous; O LORD, Thou dost encompass him w… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou dost bless the righteous; O LORD, Thou dost encompass him with favour as with a shield. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 5:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 5:13 · JPS 1917

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For Thou dost bless the righteous; O LORD, Thou dost encompass him with favour as with a shield.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** bless, encompass · **To what, where:** righteous, LORD

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This is Psalms 5:13 · 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 (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:53
# text = For Thou dost bless the righteous; O LORD, Thou dost encompass him with favour as with a shield.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	encompass	encompass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | present · do-support | Thou | the righteous |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteous=Theme |
| 2 | **encompass** | present · do-support | Thou | LORD |  |  |  | with favour; as a shield; LORD *vocative* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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כִּֽי־אַתָּה֮ תְּבָרֵ֪ךְ צַ֫דִּ֥יק יְהוָ֑ה כַּ֝צִּנָּ֗ה רָצ֥וֹן תַּעְטְרֶֽנּוּ׃

[Psalms 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.13/)

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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:53` 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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