---
title: Psalms 69:24 (JPS 1917) — Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter. Who acts: you, eyes, compassions, loins. Psalms 69:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1151/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/69/) / [69:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.24/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 69:24 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, eyes, compassions, loins · **What happens:** let, darken, not see, make, totter · **To what, where:** eyes, loins

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 69:24 · 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, eyes, compassions, loins), 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:1151
# text = Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.
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	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	darkened	darken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	totter	totter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | compassions's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **darken** | infinitive · passive | compassions's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present | compassions *= compassion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | compassions's loins |  |  |  | continually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **totter** | to-infinitive | compassions's loins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
תֶּחְשַׁ֣כְנָה עֵ֭ינֵיהֶם מֵרְא֑וֹת וּ֝מָתְנֵ֗יהֶם תָּמִ֥יד הַמְעַֽד׃

[Psalms 69:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.24/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:1151` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 69:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1150/)
- next →: [Psalms 69:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1152/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 69:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.24/)