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title: Psalms 10:4 (JPS 1917) — The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not req… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.' Who acts: wicked, God. Psalms 10:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 10:4 · JPS 1917

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The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'

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**Who acts:** wicked, God · **What happens:** say, not require, be, pride, think · **To what, where:** pride, countenance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 10:4 · 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 (wicked, God), 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:121
# text = The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the wicked |  |  | the pride of wicked's countenance |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **require** | future | wicked |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no God |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pride** |  |  | wicked's countenance |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **think** |  | wicked |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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רָשָׁ֗ע כְּגֹ֣בַהּ אַ֭פּוֹ בַּל־יִדְרֹ֑שׁ אֵ֥ין אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים כָּל־מְזִמּוֹתָֽיו׃

[Psalms 10:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.4/)

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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:121` 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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