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title: Psalms 64:5 (JPS 1917) — That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do t… · tree and pragmatics
description: That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. Who acts: workers. Psalms 64:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 64:5 · JPS 1917

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That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

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**Who acts:** workers · **What happens:** shoot, not fear · **To what, where:** secret places

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This is Psalms 64:5 · 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 (workers), 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:1035
# text = That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
1	That	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blameless	blameless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | may | workers *= worker* |  |  | secret places |  | at the blameless | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in place=Destination |
| 2 | **shoot** | present · do-support | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  | at God; suddenly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **fear** | infinitive | workers *= worker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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לִיר֣וֹת בַּמִּסְתָּרִ֣ים תָּ֑ם פִּתְאֹ֥ם יֹ֝רֻ֗הוּ וְלֹ֣א יִירָֽאוּ׃

[Psalms 64:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.5/)

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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:1035` 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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