--- title: Psalms 50:16 — But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My s… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth? Who acts: wicked God, thou, My. Psalms 50:16 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/50/) / 50:16 # Psalms 50:16 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** wicked God, thou, My · **What happens:** say, do, declare, take, covenant · **To what, where:** statutes, covenant, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 50:16 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — wicked God, thou, My — and what happens in the verse to statutes, covenant, mouth, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְלָ֤רָשָׁ֨ע ׀ אָ֘מַ֤ר אֱלֹהִ֗ים מַה־לְּ֭ךָ לְסַפֵּ֣ר חֻקָּ֑י וַתִּשָּׂ֖א בְרִיתִ֣י עֲלֵי־פִֽיךָ׃ [But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.833/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:772 # text = וְלָ֤רָשָׁ֨ע ׀ אָ֘מַ֤ר אֱלֹהִ֗ים מַה־לְּ֭ךָ לְסַפֵּ֣ר חֻקָּ֑י וַתִּשָּׂ֖א בְרִיתִ֣י עֲלֵי־פִֽיךָ׃ # verse = PSA.50.16 1-4 וְלָ֤רָשָׁ֨ע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_50:16!1|MId=o190500160011|Strong=2050b 2 לָ֤ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_50:16!1|MId=o190500160012|Strong=3807a 3 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_50:16!1|MId=o190500160012ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 רָשָׁ֨ע רָשָׁע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obl _ Gloss=wicked|Ref=PSA_50:16!1|MId=o190500160013|Strong=7563|Type=adjective 5 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 4 punct _ Ref=PSA_50:16!1 6 אָ֘מַ֤ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.says|Ref=PSA_50:16!2|MId=o190500160021|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:190500160031;|Type=qatal 7 אֱלֹהִ֗ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_50:16!3|MId=o190500160031|Strong=0430 8 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ Gloss=what?|Ref=PSA_50:16!4|MId=o190500160041|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 9-10 לְּ֭ךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לְּ֭ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=[is].to|Ref=PSA_50:16!5|MId=o190500160051|Strong=3807a 10 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 ccomp _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_50:16!5|MId=o190500160052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 11-12 לְסַפֵּ֣ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_50:16!6|MId=o190500160061|Strong=3807a 12 סַפֵּ֣ר סָפַר VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 10 advcl _ Gloss=recount|Ref=PSA_50:16!6|MId=o190500160062|Strong=5608|Frame=A0:190500160014;A1:190500160071;|Type=infinitive_construct 13-14 חֻקָּ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 חֻקּ חֹק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 obj _ Gloss=decrees|Ref=PSA_50:16!7|MId=o190500160071|Strong=2706 14 ָ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_50:16!7|MId=o190500160072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15-16 וַתִּשָּׂ֖א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_50:16!8|MId=o190500160081|Strong=2050b 16 תִּשָּׂ֖א נָשָׂא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 10 conj _ Gloss=you.have.taken|Ref=PSA_50:16!8|MId=o190500160082|Strong=5375|Frame=A0:190500160014;A1:190500160091;|Type=wayyiqtol 17-18 בְרִיתִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בְרִית בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obj _ Gloss=covenant|Ref=PSA_50:16!9|MId=o190500160091|Strong=1285 18 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_50:16!9|MId=o190500160092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 עֲלֵי־ עַל ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=PSA_50:16!10|MId=o190500160101|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 20-21 פִֽיךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 פִֽי פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=mouth|Ref=PSA_50:16!11|MId=o190500160111|Strong=6310 21 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_50:16!11|MId=o190500160112|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=PSA_50:16!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָמַר *he says* | qatal · qal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | | | | | סַפֵּר *recount* | infinitive construct · piel | | חֻקּ *decrees* | | | | תִּשָּׂא *you have taken* | wayyiqtol · qal | | בְרִית *covenant* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} וּלְרַשִׁיעָא דְלָא עֲבַד תְּתוּבָא וּמְצַלֵי בִּמְרוֹמָא אֲמַר יְיָ מַה לָךְ לְמִשְׁתָּעֵי קְיָמִי וְתֵימֵי בִּשְׁמִי וְתִדְכַר קְיָמִי עֲלֵי פּוּמָךְ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.833/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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