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title: Psalms 58:12 (JPS 1917) — And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; veri… · tree and pragmatics
description: And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.' Who acts: men, reward, God. Psalms 58:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 58:12 · JPS 1917

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And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'

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**Who acts:** men, reward, God · **What happens:** say, be, judge · **To what, where:** earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 58:12 · 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 (men, reward, 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:957
# text = And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	judgeth	judge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | a reward for the righteous |  |  | there |  | verily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | a God |  |  | there |  | verily *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **judge** | present | a God |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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וְיֹאמַ֣ר אָ֭דָם אַךְ־פְּרִ֣י לַצַּדִּ֑יק אַ֥ךְ יֵשׁ־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים שֹׁפְטִ֥ים בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 58:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.12/)

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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:957` 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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