--- title: Psalms 62:10 — Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity. Who acts: Men, lies. Psalms 62:10 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.62.10/) [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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/62/) / 62:10 # Psalms 62:10 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Men, lies · **What happens:** be, lay · **To what, where:** vanity, lie, lies, balances This is Psalms 62:10 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 — Men, lies — and what happens in the verse to vanity, lie, lies, balances, 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. אַ֤ךְ ׀ הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֪ב בְּנֵ֫י אִ֥ישׁ בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם לַעֲל֑וֹת הֵ֝֗מָּה מֵהֶ֥בֶל יָֽחַד׃ [Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1014/) ## 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:940 # text = אַ֤ךְ ׀ הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֪ב בְּנֵ֫י אִ֥ישׁ בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם לַעֲל֑וֹת הֵ֝֗מָּה מֵהֶ֥בֶל יָֽחַד׃ # verse = PSA.62.10 1 אַ֤ךְ אַךְ ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=only|Ref=PSA_62:10!1|MId=o190620100011|Strong=0389|Type=affirmation 2 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 1 punct _ Ref=PSA_62:10!1 3 הֶ֥בֶל הֶבֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[are].a.breath|Ref=PSA_62:10!2|MId=o190620100021|Strong=1892 4 בְּנֵֽי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].children|Ref=PSA_62:10!3|MId=o190620100031|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 5 אָדָם֮ אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.humankind|Ref=PSA_62:10!4|MId=o190620100041|Strong=0120 6 כָּזָ֪ב כָּזָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Gloss=[are].falsehood|Ref=PSA_62:10!5|MId=o190620100051|Strong=3577 7 בְּנֵ֫י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].children|Ref=PSA_62:10!6|MId=o190620100061|Strong=1121 8 אִ֥ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.everyone|Ref=PSA_62:10!7|MId=o190620100071|Strong=0376 9-10 בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=in.[the]|Ref=PSA_62:10!8|MId=o190620100081|Strong=0871a 10 מֹאזְנַ֥יִם מֹאזְנַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Dual 12 obl _ Gloss=balances|Ref=PSA_62:10!8|MId=o190620100082|Strong=3976 11-12 לַעֲל֑וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_62:10!9|MId=o190620100091|Strong=3807a 12 עֲל֑וֹת עָלָה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 3 parataxis _ Gloss=go.up|Ref=PSA_62:10!9|MId=o190620100092|Strong=5927|Frame=A0:190620100031;190620100061;|Type=infinitive_construct 13 הֵ֝֗מָּה הֵמָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ Gloss=they|Ref=PSA_62:10!10|MId=o190620100101|Strong=1992|Type=personal 14-15 מֵהֶ֥בֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=[are].more|Ref=PSA_62:10!11|MId=o190620100111|Strong=4480 15 הֶ֥בֶל הֶבֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Gloss=than.a.breath|Ref=PSA_62:10!11|MId=o190620100112|Strong=1892 16 יָֽחַד יַחַד ADV _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 advmod _ Gloss=together|Ref=PSA_62:10!12|MId=o190620100121|Strong=3162|SpaceAfter=No 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=PSA_62:10!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עֲלוֹת *go up* | infinitive construct · qal | בְּנֵֽי־ *\[the\] children* + בְּנֵי *\[the\] children* | | | | 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} בְּרַם לְמָא בְּנֵי נָשָׁא כַּדִיבָא בְּנֵי גְּבַר כַּד יִסְבּוּן בְּנֵי נָשָׁא בְּמִסְחֲתָא יִתְקְלוּן מַזָלְהוֹן הִנוּן גַרְמֵיהוֹן מִן לְמָא הֲוָון כַּחֲדָא: 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. [Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1014/) **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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