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title: Psalms 109:7 (JPS 1917) — When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin. Who acts: you, man, prayer. Psalms 109:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 109:7 · JPS 1917

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When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.

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**Who acts:** you, man, prayer · **What happens:** judge, let, go, condemn, turn, pray · **To what, where:** man, prayer, sin

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This is Psalms 109:7 · 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 (you, man, prayer), 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:2021
# text = When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | present · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **condemn** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | man's prayer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn** | infinitive · passive | man's prayer *not said here* |  |  | sin |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into sin=Trajectory |
| 7 | **pray** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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בְּ֭הִשָּׁ֣פְטוֹ יֵצֵ֣א רָשָׁ֑ע וּ֝תְפִלָּת֗וֹ תִּהְיֶ֥ה לַֽחֲטָאָֽה׃

[Psalms 109:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.7/)

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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:2021` 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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