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title: Psalms 91:6 (JPS 1917) — Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday. Who acts: pestilence, destruction. Psalms 91:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 91:6 · JPS 1917

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Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

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**Who acts:** pestilence, destruction · **What happens:** walk, waste · **To what, where:** darkness, noonday

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This is Psalms 91:6 · 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 (pestilence, destruction), 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:1641
# text = Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wasteth	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	noonday	noonday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | the pestilence nor the destruction |  |  | darkness |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
| 2 | **waste** | present | the destruction |  |  | noonday |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

[Psalms 91:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/)

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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:1641` 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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