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title: Psalms 94:20 (JPS 1917) — Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which framet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute? Who acts: seat. Psalms 94:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 94:20 · JPS 1917

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Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?

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**Who acts:** seat · **What happens:** have, frame · **To what, where:** fellowship, mischief

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This is Psalms 94:20 · 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 (seat), 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:1696
# text = Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	fellowship	fellowship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	frameth	frame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	statute	statute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | the seat of wickedness | fellowship |  |  |  | with Thee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellowship=Patient |
| 2 | **frame** | present | the seat of wickedness | mischief |  |  |  | by statute | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mischief=Destination |

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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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הַֽ֭יְחָבְרְךָ כִּסֵּ֣א הַוּ֑וֹת יֹצֵ֖ר עָמָ֣ל עֲלֵי־חֹֽק׃

[Psalms 94:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.20/)

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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:1696` 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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