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title: Psalms 56:12 (JPS 1917) — In God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me? · tree and pragmatics
description: In God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me? Who acts: I, man. Psalms 56:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 56:12 · JPS 1917

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In God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me?

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** trust, not be, do

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This is Psalms 56:12 · 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, 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:928
# text = In God do I trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | in God | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | can | man |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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בֵּֽאלֹהִ֣ים בָּ֭טַחְתִּי לֹ֣א אִירָ֑א מַה־יַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה אָדָ֣ם לִֽי׃

[Psalms 56:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.12/)

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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:928` 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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