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title: Psalms 89:40 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground. Who acts: Thou, servant, covenant. Psalms 89:40 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 89:40 · JPS 1917

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Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Thou, servant, covenant · **What happens:** abhor, profane, covenant, crown · **To what, where:** covenant, crown

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This is Psalms 89:40 · 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, servant, covenant), 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:1601
# text = Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	abhorred	abhor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	profaned	profane	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **abhor** | present · perfect | Thou | the covenant of Thy servant |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer covenant=Stimulus |
| 2 | **profane** | present · perfect | Thou | covenant's crown |  |  |  | to the ground | tree rules |
| 3 | **covenant** |  | Thy servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **crown** |  | covenant |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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נֵ֭אַרְתָּה בְּרִ֣ית עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ חִלַּ֖לְתָּ לָאָ֣רֶץ נִזְרֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 89:40: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.40/)

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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:1601` 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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