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title: Psalms 69:23 (JPS 1917) — Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in pea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap. Who acts: you, table, compassions. Psalms 69:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 69:23 · JPS 1917

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Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

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**Who acts:** you, table, compassions · **What happens:** let, become, be · **To what, where:** table, snare, peace, trap

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This is Psalms 69:23 · 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, table, compassions), 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:1150
# text = Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | compassions's table |  |  | before compassions *= compassion* |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | compassions's table *not said here* | a snare |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | compassions *= compassion* |  |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | table |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | infinitive | table *not said here* | a trap |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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יְהִֽי־שֻׁלְחָנָ֣ם לִפְנֵיהֶ֣ם לְפָ֑ח וְלִשְׁלוֹמִ֥ים לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ׃

[Psalms 69:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.23/)

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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:1150` 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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