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title: Psalms 62:5 (JPS 1917) — They only devise to thrust him down from his height, delighting in l… · tree and pragmatics
description: They only devise to thrust him down from his height, delighting in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Who acts: rock. Psalms 62:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 62:5 · JPS 1917

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They only devise to thrust him down from his height, delighting in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

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**Who acts:** rock · **What happens:** devise, thrust down, delight, bless, curse · **To what, where:** salvation, height, lies

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This is Psalms 62:5 · 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 (rock), 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:1009
# text = They only devise to thrust him down from his height, delighting in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	devise	devise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	delighting	delight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bless	bless	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	curse	curse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	inwardly	inwardly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devise** | present | rock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thrust down** | to-infinitive | rock *not said here* | salvation |  | salvation's height |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from height=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **delight** | gerund | rock *not said here* |  |  | lies |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bless** | present | rock |  |  |  |  | with rock's mouth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **curse** | present | rock |  |  |  |  | inwardly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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אַ֤ךְ מִשְּׂאֵת֨וֹ ׀ יָעֲצ֣וּ לְהַדִּיחַ֮ יִרְצ֪וּ כָ֫זָ֥ב בְּפִ֥יו יְבָרֵ֑כוּ וּ֝בְקִרְבָּ֗ם יְקַלְלוּ־סֶֽלָה׃

[Psalms 62:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.5/)

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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:1009` 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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