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title: Psalms 92:8 (JPS 1917) — When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever. Who acts: wicked, workers. Psalms 92:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 92:8 · JPS 1917

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When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

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**Who acts:** wicked, workers · **What happens:** spring up, flourish, be · **To what, where:** wicked

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This is Psalms 92:8 · 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 (wicked, workers), 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:1661
# text = When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **spring up** | present | the wicked |  |  |  |  | as the grass | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flourish** | present · do-support | all workers of iniquity |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may · present · passive |  | wicked |  |  |  | destroy *property* | tree rules |

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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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בִּפְרֹ֤חַ רְשָׁעִ֨ים ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ עֵ֗שֶׂב וַ֭יָּצִיצוּ כָּל־פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן לְהִשָּֽׁמְדָ֥ם עֲדֵי־עַֽד׃

[Psalms 92:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.8/)

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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:1661` 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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