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title: Psalms 81:10 (JPS 1917) — There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship an… · tree and pragmatics
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# Psalms 81:10 · JPS 1917

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There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** worship · **To what, where:** foreign god

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This is Psalms 81:10 · 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:1447
# text = There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worship** | shall | thou | any foreign god |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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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לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְ֭ךָ אֵ֣ל זָ֑ר וְלֹ֥א תִ֝שְׁתַּחֲוֶ֗ה לְאֵ֣ל נֵכָֽר׃

[Psalms 81:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.10/)

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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:1447` 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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