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title: Psalms 56:5 (JPS 1917) — In God — I will praise His word — in God do I trust, I will not be a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In God — I will praise His word — in God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me? Who acts: I, flesh, God. Psalms 56:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 56:5 · JPS 1917

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In God — I will praise His word — in God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me?

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**Who acts:** I, flesh, God · **What happens:** praise, trust, not be, do, word · **To what, where:** word

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This is Psalms 56:5 · 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 (I, flesh, God), 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:921
# text = In God — I will praise His word — in God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- 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 | **praise** | future | I | God's word |  |  |  | in God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **trust** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | in God | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | can | flesh |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **word** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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בֵּאלֹהִים֮ אֲהַלֵּ֪ל דְּבָ֫ר֥וֹ בֵּאלֹהִ֣ים בָּ֭טַחְתִּי לֹ֣א אִירָ֑א מַה־יַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בָשָׂ֣ר לִֽי׃

[Psalms 56:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.5/)

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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:921` 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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