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title: Psalms 55:20 (JPS 1917) — God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, S… · tree and pragmatics
description: God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, Selah, such as have no changes, and fear not God. Who acts: God, Selah. Psalms 55:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 55:20 · JPS 1917

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God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, Selah, such as have no changes, and fear not God.

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**Who acts:** God, Selah · **What happens:** hear, humble, enthrone, have, not fear · **To what, where:** iniquity, changes, God

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This is Psalms 55:20 · 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 (God, Selah), 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:911
# text = God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, Selah, such as have no changes, and fear not God.
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	humble	humble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	enthroned	enthrone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Selah	Selah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	17	det	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | shall | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **humble** | infinitive | God | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 3 | **enthrone** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of old | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | such Selah *not said here* | no changes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | such Selah *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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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יִשְׁמַ֤ע ׀ אֵ֨ל ׀ וְֽיַעֲנֵם֮ וְיֹ֤שֵׁ֥ב קֶ֗דֶם סֶ֥לָה אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵ֣ין חֲלִיפ֣וֹת לָ֑מוֹ וְלֹ֖א יָרְא֣וּ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Psalms 55:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.20/)

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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:911` 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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