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title: Psalms 83:18 (JPS 1917) — Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish; Who acts: you, mountains. Psalms 83:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 83:18 · JPS 1917

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Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;

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**Who acts:** you, mountains · **What happens:** let, be, affright, abash, perish · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is Psalms 83:18 · 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 (you, mountains), 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:1481
# text = Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	affrighted	affright	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	abashed	abash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **affright** | participle | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **abash** | infinitive · passive | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **perish** | infinitive | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ וְיִבָּהֲל֥וּ עֲדֵי־עַ֗ד וְֽיַחְפְּר֥וּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

[Psalms 83:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.18/)

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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:1481` 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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