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title: Psalms 62:4 (JPS 1917) — How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, as a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Who acts: ye. Psalms 62:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 62:4 · JPS 1917

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How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, as a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** set, slay · **To what, where:** salvation

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This is Psalms 62:4 · 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 (ye), 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:1008
# text = How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, as a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	leaning	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tottering	tottering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=evaluate, indirect=1, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | future | ye |  |  |  |  | upon a man; long *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon man=Destination |
| 2 | **slay** | may | ye | salvation |  |  |  | as a leaning wall | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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עַד־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּהֽוֹתְת֣וּ עַלאִישׁ֮ תְּרָצְּח֪וּ כֻ֫לְּכֶ֥ם כְּקִ֥יר נָט֑וּי גָּ֝דֵ֗ר הַדְּחוּיָֽה׃

[Psalms 62:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.4/)

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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:1008` 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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