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title: Psalms 101:5 (JPS 1917) — Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer. Who acts: Whoso, I. Psalms 101:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 101:5 · JPS 1917

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Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, I · **What happens:** slander, destroy, be, not suffer · **To what, where:** neighbour, secret, heart

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This is Psalms 101:5 · 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 (Whoso, I), 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:1767
# text = Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slandereth	slander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slander** | present | Whoso | heart's neighbour |  | secret |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | future | I | heart |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | whoso |  |  |  |  | of eye; haughty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | whoso *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of heart | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **suffer** | future | I | heart |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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מְלָשְׁנִ֬י בַסֵּ֨תֶר ׀ רֵעֵהוּ֮ אוֹת֪וֹ אַ֫צְמִ֥ית גְּֽבַהּ־עֵ֭ינַיִם וּרְחַ֣ב לֵבָ֑ב אֹ֝ת֗וֹ לֹ֣א אוּכָֽל׃

[Psalms 101:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.101.5/)

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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:1767` 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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