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title: Psalms 10:13 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'? Who acts: wicked, Thou. Psalms 10:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 10:13 · JPS 1917

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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?

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**Who acts:** wicked, Thou · **What happens:** contemn, say, not require · **To what, where:** God, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 10:13 · 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, Thou), 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:130
# text = Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	contemn	contemn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contemn** | present · do-support | the wicked | God |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the wicked *not said here* |  |  | wicked's heart |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **require** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=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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עַל־מֶ֤ה ׀ נִאֵ֖ץ רָשָׁ֥ע ׀ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אָמַ֥ר בְּ֝לִבּ֗וֹ לֹ֣א תִּדְרֹֽשׁ׃

[Psalms 10:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.13/)

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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:130` 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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