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title: Psalms 10:15 (JPS 1917) — Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search ou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 10:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 10:15 · JPS 1917

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Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** break, search out, find · **To what, where:** arm, wickedness, none

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This is Psalms 10:15 · 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 (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:132
# text = Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	search	search	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **break** | infinitive | Thou | the arm of the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
| 2 | **search out** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | God's wickedness |  |  |  | as the evil man | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wickedness=Location |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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שְׁ֭בֹר זְר֣וֹעַ רָשָׁ֑ע וָ֝רָ֗ע תִּֽדְרוֹשׁ־רִשְׁע֥וֹ בַל־תִּמְצָֽא׃

[Psalms 10:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.15/)

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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:132` 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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