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title: Psalms 69:5 — They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away? Who acts: eyes, I. Psalms 69:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every 
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# Psalms 69:5 תְּהִלִּים

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**Who acts:** eyes, I · **What happens:** hate, be, cut off, restore, not take away · **To what, where:** me, enemies, that

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This is Psalms 69:5 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 — eyes, I — and what happens in the verse to me, enemies, that, 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.

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רַבּ֤וּ ׀ מִשַּׂעֲר֣וֹת רֹאשִׁי֮ שֹׂנְאַ֪י חִ֫נָּ֥ם עָצְמ֣וּ מַ֭צְמִיתַי אֹיְבַ֣י שֶׁ֑קֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־גָ֝זַ֗לְתִּי אָ֣ז אָשִֽׁיב׃

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[They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1132/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1049
# text = רַבּ֤וּ ׀ מִשַּׂעֲר֣וֹת רֹאשִׁי֮ שֹׂנְאַ֪י חִ֫נָּ֥ם עָצְמ֣וּ מַ֭צְמִיתַי אֹיְבַ֣י שֶׁ֑קֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־גָ֝זַ֗לְתִּי אָ֣ז אָשִֽׁיב׃
# verse = PSA.69.5
1	רַבּ֤וּ	רָבַב	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.are.many|Ref=PSA_69:5!1|MId=o190690050011|Strong=7231|Frame=A0:190690050041;|Type=qatal
2	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	Ref=PSA_69:5!1
3-4	מִשַּׂעֲר֣וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=more|Ref=PSA_69:5!2|MId=o190690050021|Strong=4480
4	שַּׂעֲר֣וֹת	שַׂעֲרָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Gloss=than.the.hairs|Ref=PSA_69:5!2|MId=o190690050022|Strong=8185
5-6	רֹאשִׁי֮	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	רֹאשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=my.head|Ref=PSA_69:5!3|MId=o190690050031|Strong=7218
6	ִי֮	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_69:5!3|MId=o190690050032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
7-8	שֹׂנְאַ֪י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	שֹׂנְא	שָׂנֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	Gloss=[those|Ref=PSA_69:5!4|MId=o190690050041|Strong=8130|Frame=A1:190690050042;|Type=participle_active
8	ַ֪י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	Gloss=who].hate.me|Ref=PSA_69:5!4|MId=o190690050042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
9	חִ֫נָּ֥ם	חִנָּם	ADV	_	_	7	advmod	_	Gloss=without.cause|Ref=PSA_69:5!5|MId=o190690050051|Strong=2600
10	עָצְמ֣וּ	עָצֹם	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.are.numerous|Ref=PSA_69:5!6|MId=o190690050061|Strong=6105|Frame=A0:190690050071;|Type=qatal
11-12	מַ֭צְמִיתַי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	מַ֭צְמִית	צָמַת	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=[those|Ref=PSA_69:5!7|MId=o190690050071|Strong=6789|Frame=A1:190690050072;|Type=participle_active
12	ַי	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=who].destroy.me|Ref=PSA_69:5!7|MId=o190690050072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
13-14	אֹיְבַ֣י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	אֹיְב	אָיַב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	11	amod	_	Gloss=enemies|Ref=PSA_69:5!8|MId=o190690050081|Strong=0341|Type=participle_active
14	ַ֣י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_69:5!8|MId=o190690050082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
15	שֶׁ֑קֶר	שֶׁקֶר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Gloss=falsehood|Ref=PSA_69:5!9|MId=o190690050091|Strong=8267
16	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	18	mark	_	Gloss=[that].which|Ref=PSA_69:5!10|MId=o190690050101|Strong=0834|Type=relative
17	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	18	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_69:5!11|MId=o190690050111|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No
18	גָ֝זַ֗לְתִּי	גָּזַל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	20	obj	_	Gloss=I.stole|Ref=PSA_69:5!12|MId=o190690050121|Strong=1497|Frame=A0:190690010042;|Type=qatal
19	אָ֣ז	אָז	ADV	_	_	20	advmod	_	Gloss=then|Ref=PSA_69:5!13|MId=o190690050131|Strong=0227
20	אָשִֽׁיב	שׁוּב	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=I.will.return|Ref=PSA_69:5!14|MId=o190690050141|Strong=7725|Frame=AA:190690010042;A0:190690050121;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=PSA_69:5!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| רַבּוּ *they are many* | qatal · qal | שֹׂנְא *\[those* |  |  |  |
| שֹׂנְא *\[those* | participle active · qal |  | ַי *who\] hate me* |  |  |
| עָצְמוּ *they are numerous* | qatal · qal | מַצְמִית *\[those* |  |  |  |
| מַצְמִית *\[those* | participle active · hiphil |  | ַי *who\] destroy me* |  |  |
| **not** גָזַלְתִּי *I stole* | qatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| אָשִֽׁיב *I will return* | yiqtol · hiphil | גָזַלְתִּי *I stole* |  |  |  |

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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}

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סַגִיעִין מִן סַעֲרָן דְרֵישִׁי סָנְאַי מַגָן תְּקַפוּ מַקְנִיטַי בַּעֲלֵי דְבָבַי סָהֲדֵי שִׁקְרָא דְלָא אַנְסֵית עַל סַהֲדוּתְכוֹן הַבְּכֵן אֲשַׁלֵם:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1132/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:PSA:1049`.

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