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title: Psalms 13:5 (JPS 1917) — Lest mine enemy say: 'I have prevailed against him'; lest mine adver… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lest mine enemy say: 'I have prevailed against him'; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved. Who acts: enemy, I, adversaries. Psalms 13:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 13:5 · JPS 1917

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Lest mine enemy say: 'I have prevailed against him'; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

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**Who acts:** enemy, I, adversaries · **What happens:** say, prevail, rejoice, move · **To what, where:** I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Psalms 13:5 · 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 (enemy, I, adversaries), 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:162
# text = Lest mine enemy say: 'I have prevailed against him'; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
1	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | mine enemy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **prevail** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | against enemy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location |
| 3 | **rejoice** | present | mine adversaries |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **move** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |

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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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פֶּן־יֹאמַ֣ר אֹיְבִ֣י יְכָלְתִּ֑יו צָרַ֥י יָ֝גִ֗ילוּ כִּ֣י אֶמּֽוֹט׃

[Psalms 13:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.13.5/)

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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:162` 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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