---
title: Psalms 109:6 (JPS 1917) — 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his r… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 109:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2020/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/109/) / [109:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.6/) / JPS 1

# Psalms 109:6 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** set, let, stand · **To what, where:** wicked man, adversary, right hand

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Psalms 109:6 · 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 (Thou), 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:2020
# text = 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | infinitive | Thou | a wicked man |  |  |  | over man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme over he=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | a adversary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  | man's right hand |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
הַפְקֵ֣ד עָלָ֣יו רָשָׁ֑ע וְ֝שָׂטָ֗ן יַעֲמֹ֥ד עַל־יְמִינֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 109:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.6/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:2020` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Psalms 109:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2019/)
- next →: [Psalms 109:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2021/)
- ↑ back to [Psalms 109:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.6/)