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title: Psalms 50:6 (JPS 1917) — And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge. · tree and pragmatics
description: And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge. Who acts: heavens, Zion. Psalms 50:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 50:6 · JPS 1917

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And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge.

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**Who acts:** heavens, Zion · **What happens:** declare, be · **To what, where:** righteousness, judge

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This is Psalms 50:6 · 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 (heavens, Zion), 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:823
# text = And the heavens declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	dep	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | the heavens | Zion's righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Zion | judge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם צִדְק֑וֹ כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֓ים ׀ שֹׁפֵ֖ט ה֣וּא סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 50:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.6/)

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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:823` 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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