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title: Psalms 81:16 (JPS 1917) — The haters of the LORD should dwindle away before Him; and their pun… · tree and pragmatics
description: The haters of the LORD should dwindle away before Him; and their punishment should endure for ever. Who acts: haters, punishment. Psalms 81:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 81:16 · JPS 1917

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The haters of the LORD should dwindle away before Him; and their punishment should endure for ever.

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**Who acts:** haters, punishment · **What happens:** dwindle away, endure, punish

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This is Psalms 81:16 · 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 (haters, punishment), 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:1453
# text = The haters of the LORD should dwindle away before Him; and their punishment should endure for ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	haters	hater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dwindle	dwindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwindle away** | should | the haters of the LORD |  |  |  | before LORD | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **endure** | should | haters's punishment |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **punish** |  | haters *= hater* |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act 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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מְשַׂנְאֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה יְכַֽחֲשׁוּ־ל֑וֹ וִיהִ֖י עִתָּ֣ם לְעוֹלָֽם׃

[Psalms 81:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.16/)

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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:1453` 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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