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title: Psalms 37:7 (JPS 1917) — Resign thyself unto the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; fret not t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Resign thyself unto the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Who acts: you, man. Psalms 37:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 37:7 · JPS 1917

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Resign thyself unto the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** resign, wait, not fret, prosper, bring, pass · **To what, where:** thyself, way, wicked devices

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This is Psalms 37:7 · 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, man), 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:580
# text = Resign thyself unto the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
1	Resign	resign	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fret	fret	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
16	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	prospereth	prosper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resign** | imperative | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for David; patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fret** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  | because David; because the man | tree rules |
| 4 | **prosper** | present |  |  |  | David's way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 5 | **bring** | present | the man | wicked devices |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent device=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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דּ֤וֹם ׀ לַיהוָה֮ וְהִתְח֪וֹלֵ֫ל ל֥וֹ אַל־תִּ֭תְחַר בְּמַצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכּ֑וֹ בְּ֝אִ֗ישׁ עֹשֶׂ֥ה מְזִמּֽוֹת׃

[Psalms 37:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.7/)

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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:580` 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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