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title: Psalms 37:27 (JPS 1917) — Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. · tree and pragmatics
description: Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. Who acts: you. Psalms 37:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 37:27 · JPS 1917

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Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** depart, do, dwell · **To what, where:** evil, good

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This is Psalms 37:27 · 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), 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:600
# text = Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
1	Depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	evermore	evermore	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | evil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dwell** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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ס֣וּר מֵ֭רָע וַעֲשֵׂה־ט֗וֹב וּשְׁכֹ֥ן לְעוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 37:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.27/)

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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:600` 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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