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title: Psalms 62:11 (JPS 1917) — Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches… · tree and pragmatics
description: Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon. Who acts: you, riches. Psalms 62:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 62:11 · JPS 1917

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Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

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**Who acts:** you, riches · **What happens:** not trust, not put, increase, not set · **To what, where:** oppression, vain hope, robbery, heart

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This is Psalms 62:11 · 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 (you, riches), 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:1015
# text = Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
1	Trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	oppression	oppression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	robbery	robbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	increase	increase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | oppression |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | vain hope |  | robbery |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hope=Theme in robbery=Destination |
| 3 | **increase** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | riches |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your heart |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result |

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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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אַל־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְעֹשֶׁק֮ וּבְגָזֵ֪ל אַל־תֶּ֫הְבָּ֥לוּ חַ֤יִל ׀ כִּֽי־יָנ֑וּב אַל־תָּשִׁ֥יתוּ לֵֽב׃

[Psalms 62:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.11/)

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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:1015` 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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