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title: Psalms 69:5 (JPS 1917) — They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head… · tree and pragmatics
description: They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away? Who acts: eyes, I. Psalms 69:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 69:5 · JPS 1917

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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?

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**Who acts:** eyes, I · **What happens:** hate, be, cut off, restore, not take away · **To what, where:** me, enemies, that

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This is Psalms 69:5 · 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 (eyes, I), 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:1132
# text = They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	advcl	_	_
27	wrongfully	wrongfully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obj	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present |  | me |  |  |  | without a cause | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | than the hairs of my head; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut off** | would |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund |  | mine enemies |  |  |  | wrongfully *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **restore** | should | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **take away** | past | I |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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רַבּ֤וּ ׀ מִשַּׂעֲר֣וֹת רֹאשִׁי֮ שֹׂנְאַ֪י חִ֫נָּ֥ם עָצְמ֣וּ מַ֭צְמִיתַי אֹיְבַ֣י שֶׁ֑קֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־גָ֝זַ֗לְתִּי אָ֣ז אָשִֽׁיב׃

[Psalms 69:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.5/)

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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:1132` 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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