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title: Psalms 62:10 (JPS 1917) — Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if t… · 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 JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 62:10 · JPS 1917

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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.

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**Who acts:** Men, lies · **What happens:** be, lay · **To what, where:** vanity, lie, lies, balances

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This is Psalms 62:10 · 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 (Men, lies), 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:1014
# text = 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.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	balances	balance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Men of low degree | vanity and a lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | men of high degree | a lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | lies *= lie* |  | the balances |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in balance=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | lies *= lie* |  |  |  |  | than vanity; light, together *property* | tree rules |

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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 ׀ הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֪ב בְּנֵ֫י אִ֥ישׁ בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם לַעֲל֑וֹת הֵ֝֗מָּה מֵהֶ֥בֶל יָֽחַד׃

[Psalms 62:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.10/)

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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:1014` 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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