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title: Psalms 63:10 (JPS 1917) — But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nether… · tree and pragmatics
description: But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth. Who acts: those. Psalms 63:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 63:10 · JPS 1917

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But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth.

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**Who acts:** those · **What happens:** seek, destroy, go · **To what, where:** soul, nethermost parts

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This is Psalms 63:10 · 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 (those), 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:1027
# text = But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	nethermost	nethermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present |  | my soul |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | soul |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | shall | those |  |  | the nethermost parts of the earth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְהֵ֗מָּה לְ֭שׁוֹאָה יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ נַפְשִׁ֑י יָ֝בֹ֗אוּ בְּֽתַחְתִּיּ֥וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

[Psalms 63:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.10/)

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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:1027` 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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