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title: Psalms 64:6 (JPS 1917) — They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of layin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would see them. Who acts: workers. Psalms 64:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 64:6 · JPS 1917

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They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would see them.

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**Who acts:** workers · **What happens:** encourage, converse, lay, ask, see · **To what, where:** one, evil matter, snares, workers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 64:6 · 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:1036
# text = They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would see them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	encourage	encourage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	another	another	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Rcp	3	fixed	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	converse	converse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **encourage** | present | workers *= worker* | one |  | a evil matter |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **converse** *speech: other* | present | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | workers *= worker* *not said here* | snares |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Result |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | would |  | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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יְחַזְּקוּ־לָ֨מוֹ ׀ דָּ֘בָ֤ר רָ֗ע יְֽ֭סַפְּרוּ לִטְמ֣וֹן מוֹקְשִׁ֑ים אָ֝מְר֗וּ מִ֣י יִרְאֶה־לָּֽמוֹ׃

[Psalms 64:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.6/)

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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:1036` 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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